Nation building and language in education policy

Title: Nation building and language in education policy
Creator: Vu, Phuong Anh
Relation: English Tertiary Education in Vietnam p. 28-39
Relation: https://www.routledge.com/English-Tertiary-Education-in-Vietnam/Albright/p/book/9780367484088
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2019
Description: In addition to its primary role as a mode of knowledge transmission, language, throughout history, has been attributed with other political, social, and economic responsibilities. During colonisation, Asian, American, and African schools' language instruction was a tool for assimilating cultures and minds (Altbach & Kelly, 1984; Thiong'o, 1986). Since the rise of the modern nation-state, first in Europe and then on other continents, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, language has been the binding glue for the realisation of imagined communities (Anderson, 1990). Throughout historic waves of globalisation, and particularly in om current intensified period, language instruction is increasingly perceived as making a substantial contribution to national and international economic development. Within this context, governments have attended closely to language policy. Vietnam is no exception.
Subject: nation building; language; education; Vietnam
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452262
Identifier: uon:44391
Identifier: ISBN:9781351814645
Language: eng

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