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Eisenchlas, Susana A., Andrea C. Schalley and Diana Guillemin. 2015. Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia's literacy-related educational policies. The International Journal of Multilingualism 12 (2) : 162–177.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language policy | literacy | minority language | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English, Australian | Languages, Australian | Languages, Australian aboriginal

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

The more polyglot Australia has got, the more assimilationist its policies, and the more monolingual-English aligned the society that governments have tried to build via policy.To increase literacy results by and large, this orientation must be inversed. It is argued that policy comprehension and approach have to foster home languages' preservation and help literacy learning in these languages.