Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education Policies, Provision, and the National Interest /

• Main Author: Baldwin, Jennifer Joan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Language Policy, 17
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; Language and education.; Language policy.; Higher education.; Multilingualism.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Language Education.; Language Policy and Planning.; Higher Education.

This book researches the study of languages other than English, and their place in the Australian tertiary sector. Languages are discussed in the context of the histories of Australian universities, and the series of reports and surveys about languages across the second half of the twentieth century...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Founding of Australian Universities
• Post-war Expansion
• Australia: Both Multicultural and Multilingual
• Three Trade Languages: Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian
• Three Strategic Languages: Russian, Korean and Arabic
• Languages in the 1990s- the Context and the Changes
• The Asian or the Global Century?
• Conclusion.