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The Fourth International Conference on Language and Development

proceedings

The edited selected proceedings were published by the Asian Institute of Technology as a book in December last year. 

The volume is edited by Jonathan Shaw, Diana Lubelska and Michelle Noullet.

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Contributors

Contents

Alastair Pennycook
Development, culture and language: ethical concerns in a postcolonial world

Stephen Lim,  Anna Strutt, Basheba Beckmann and John Askwith
Teaching at the Mekong Institute: applying the AIM approach

Do Huy Thinh
Foreign language education policy in Vietnam: the emergence of English and its impact on higher education

James Tollefson
Language ideology and language education

Harvey Smith
Language, education and development

Hywel Coleman and Cyril Edirisinghe
Centres and peripheries: regional variation in children's competence in English in Sri Lanka

Martin Lamb and Syahrial
The "socializing" of a new university language centre in Indonesia

Richmond Stroupe, Saykham Thammanosouth and Yap Kioe Sheng
Integrating language with an institutional strengthening project in Lao PDR

Jeremy Jones
Language learning, technology and development: the essential interaction between teachers and students

Nguyen Be and David Crabbe
The design and use of English language textbooks in Vietnamese
secondary schools

Psyche Kennett
Partnerships and the supermarket approach to project management

David Hayes
English language education, projects and power

Pham Hoa Hiep
The key socio-cultural factors that work against success in tertiary English language training programs in Vietnam

Diane Larsen-Freeman
On the appropriateness of language teaching methods in language and development

Le Van Canh
Language and Vietnamese pedagogical contexts

Shawn Golinowski and Robert Raab
Language learning at a distance: implications for trainers and learners - An IRRI Case Study

Jane Jackson
Documenting the realities of local teaching practice: ensuring relevancy in teacher education programs

Fiona McCook
Dan Dan: responses to INSET from the Binh Dinh English language classroom

Thomas Perry and Jerold Edmondson
Complex language ecologies and effective language education

Kao Sophal, Som Sophara and Chhun Sovanne
Teacher training in difficult circumstances

Pham Van Hoa and Leigh Faulkner
Exploring change: a case study

 

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