Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Edited by Craig Alan Volker and Fred E. Anderson
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 35] 2015. xv, 300 pp.
Craig Alan Volker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Craig Alan Volker plays a role.
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Subjects Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2017 Documenting Unserdeutsch: Reversing colonial amnesia Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 365–397 | Article
Unserdeutsch, also known as Rabaul Creole German, is the only known German-lexifier creole. This critically endangered language has its origins in an orphanage in German New Guinea for mixed-race children, where Standard German was taught by mission personnel. Unserdeutsch was creolised in one… read more
2015 Vernacular education in Papua New Guinea: Reform or deform? Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Volker, Craig Alan and Fred E. Anderson (eds.), pp. 205–221 | Article
With only about 6 million people, Papua New Guinea has over 800 separate languages, more than any other country. Until recently, English was the only language of formal education. At the end of the 1990s the national government initiated an educational reform mandating that the language of… read more
2015 The diversity of Asia-Pacific language ecologies Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Volker, Craig Alan and Fred E. Anderson (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article
The Asia-Pacific region is culturally and linguistically extremely diverse. Many languages are spoken by indigenous or immigrant communities with little political power and some are in danger of becoming extinct in the near future. Government policies regarding the use of the languages of these… read more