[en] In Australia debates about language policy and language education are frequently contextualised in a monolingual language ideology. While Australia is a richly multicultural nation where many people are bi- or multilingual, in educational contexts, as well as in broader society, what ultimately matters is how well one has acquired standard Australian English. The languages of migrant and indigenous communities remain peripheral to a fundamentally monolingual sense of Australian identity. You don’t need to be bilingual to be Australian; it’s fine to be monolingual, as long as that language is English.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Identifiers :
UNILU:UL-ARTICLE-2010-878
Author, co-author :
Le Nevez, Adam ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Languages, Culture, Media and Identities (LCMI)
Language :
English
Title :
Review of J. Cenoz, Towards Multilingual Education: Basque Educational Research from an International Perspective
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
ISSN :
0155-0640
Publisher :
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)