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Peer reviewedEades, Diana; Fraser, Helen; Siegel, Jeff; McNamara, Tim; Baker, Brett – Language Policy, 2003
Raises concerns about the language analysis that is being done by overseas agencies and that is being used by the Australian government in determining the nationality of refugee claimants, and concludes that "language analysis" as it is currently used is not valid and reliable. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Language Planning, Linguistics
Peer reviewedSmolicz, Jerzy J.; Secombe, Margaret J. – Language Policy, 2003
Traces the effects on Australian language policy of a changing sociolinguistic situation--increasing multilingualism--and a weakening of a monolingual ideology. Analyzes the country' s emergence from an assimilationist past to its embracement of a more multicultural approach with special reference to young Cambodian-Australian's educational…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
