Multilingual Education
in South and Southeast Asia

Readings will be assigned, with some required texts and a 'course packet', which will actually be mostly PDF versions of things available via BlackBoard. Images such as maps and other handouts, will be posted on this website, and only rarely distributed in class. (The two National Geographic Maps (South Asia and Southeast Asia) will be ordered from NG for the Bookstore to distribute if they are available.) I will set up an email list for the class and post messages to you about readings and ``handouts".

Highly Recommended Resources:

(Items in red have been ordered at the University Bookstore.)

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1. Various authors: To be available on BlackBoard site.
   
   
2. Booth, Colomb and Williams, The Craft of Research , Chicago 1995.
   
   
3. Khubchandani, Lachman M. Language, education, social justice Poona : Centre for Communication Studies, 1981. P41 .K487

4. S. Gopinathan, Anne Pakir, Ho Wah Kam, and Vanitha Saravanan (eds.) Language, society, and education in Singapore : issues and trends. Singapore : Times Academic Press, 1998, P381.S56 L36 1998

5. Schiffman, H. Linguistic Culture and Language Policy , Routledge, 1996 (hb) or 1998 (pb: isbn: 0-415-18406-1).
   
   
6. Shapiro, M. and H. Schiffman, Language and Society in South Asia , Matilal Banarsidass, 1981.
   
   

Other Recommended Resources:

1. Herbert, P. and A. Milner: Southeast Asia: Languages and Literatures, a select Guide. Hawaii 1989

2. National Geographic Society, Peoples of South Asia (map)
   
   
3. CIEFL Bulletin , the journal of the Central Institute of English and other Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. (PE 1068 I4 C44)
   
   
4. National Geographic Society, Peoples of Southeast Asia (map)
   
   
5. Smalley, William A. Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand. Chicago 1994.
6. Website devoted to Indus Valley (Harappa) script issues.

Suggested Library Electronic Resources

The electronic resources are located on the Library Database page. These are databases that contain references to articles and other scholarly resources that will be helpful for locating information on topics covered in this course. Each database also has an About/Help description that should answer most questions about how to search the database. If you experience difficulties, either contact a reference librarian or the South Asia Bibliographer, David Nelson.

A large number of the journals indexed by these databases will be held by the library. However, Interlibrary Loan services can obtain items not held by the library in a timely manner, but request for materials should not wait until the last minute. Items can be requested via a interlibrary loan form.

MLA Bibliography : MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, is an internationally comprehensive index to literary and related studies, linguistics, and folklore. MLA indexes articles in over 4000 journals, essays in collective volumes, dissertations, books, and titles in series. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present. MLA tutorial from Yale.
 
BAS Online : The online Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 is available via library subscription. For how to subscribe, and other information, please go to the ciation for Asian Studies.

Academic Index : Expanded Academic ASAP provides indexing and abstracting for more than 1550 scholarly and general interest journals,
plus The New York Times; as well as full text or full image coverage of more than 500 titles. English language only.
Sources Journals, magazines, and the New York Times. The following journal titles are indexed in the Expanded Academic Index ASAP.
Document types vary: citation only, abstract, and full-text.
Dates Covered Covers 1980 to the present. Indexing for most publications starts in the 1990s.
For help with Academic Index, use the Library's help file.

 Language and Language Behavior Abstracts
Subject:  Linguistics, literacy, language acquisition, speech and hearing, and language research.
Sources  Indexing and abstracts for over 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of  monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for LLBA. See also Journal List Index
Dates Covered Covers 1973 to the present.
Print Counterpart (backfiles); Language and Language Behavior Abstracts, [Van Pelt Library: P1 .L15], 1967-1984.Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, [Van Pelt Library: P1 >l15], 1985-1993.
 
Periodicals Content Index
Subject:  Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
Sources:   Journals. A Title List of journals indexed is available.
Dates Covered:  From the beginning of each title to 1990/1991.
Help Documents:  Features and General Search (Vendor Supplied); Getting Started with PCI (MSWord)
 
Sociological Abstracts
Subject: Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.
Sources  Includes citations and abstracts from Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts. Indexes over 2000 journals from 35 countries, plus relevant dissertations, national and international conference papers, selected books and book chapters, book and other media reviews. See Journal List Index
Dates Covered Covers 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Help Documents: OVID Technologies Field Guide for Sociofile; Getting Started with Sociological Abstracts (MsWord); Convert OVID BRS/Tagged Records to various Bibliographic Formats
Print Counterpart: (backfiles) Sociological Abstracts, [Van Pelt Library: HM 1 .S67], 1952/53 - present;                  Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA), (title varies)[Van Pelt Library: HV 40: S643], 1979 - 1993.




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Writing Assignments and Other Tasks

Students will be expected to do two projects: a short writing assignment and a long writing project concerned with a topic related to multilingual education in South/Southeast Asia.

• For the longer project, a 10-15 (minimum) page paper on some aspect of the material covered in the course is required. This assignment will be due in stages, the final product due the last week of class. (To understand the requirements for this writing project, see Helpful Hints.)
• The smaller assignment will involve interviewing a native speaker of a South/Southeast Asian language, focusing on the person's multilingualism and hsr. multilingual educational experience . The results will be presented in class (if time permits), with a short write-up to be handed in. For some background on what is meant by repertoires and bilingualism in the South/Southeast Asian context, see Schiffman LCLP Chap. 2., or look at this URL on the subject of register and repertoire.

Deadlines

There will be DEADLINES for these various projects, and schedules to be adhered to.

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Dates, Topic(s), Required Readings, Other Readings

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