This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

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This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic