Richard B Baldauf
Biographic Data
| ID | 193089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard B Baldauf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard B |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldauf |
| SIGNATURE | BALDAUF R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning: Volume III
Public-private domain distinction as an aspect of LPP frameworks: A case study of Bangladesh
While macro-level language policy and planning (LPP) that is done mainly by governments still dominates thinking in the field, limitations of this focus have been demonstrated by recent broader and more focused conceptualizations of LPP. For instance, global LPP, particularly for languages of wider communication such as English, has received considerable attention. Similarly, studies of meso- and micro-level planning has shown that many LPP decis…
Medium of instruction in Asia: Context, processes and outcomes
One major impact of globalisation on education is denoted by the growing trend to use English, the global language, as a medium of instruction (MOI) in emerging polities that are trying to enhance their English-speaking capacities. This article emphasises developing an understanding of MOI from a language policy and planning as well as an educational perspective. It explores the policy and practice of MOI in 10 polities in Asia including Banglade…
Investigating the development of foreign language anxiety: An autobiographical approach
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in tertiary students learning foreign languages in many countries; however, limited research has explored how it develops. This study investigated how anxiety developed in students of English as a foreign language (EFL), focusing on changes in their feelings about EFL learning as they learned, using an autobiographical approach. Participants were 49 undergraduates identified as anxious based …
Foreign Language Anxiety: Understanding Its Status and Insiders' Awareness and Attitudes
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in all of the cultures where it has been studied, yet the literature provides limited empirical evidence to indicate whether foreign language students and teachers, as the direct stakeholders in the phenomenon, are aware of it. This study investigated the extent to which foreign language students and teachers are aware of the existence of the phenomenon of FLA and their attitudes towards it. …
Second language errors and features of world Englishes
While exocentric norms (e.g. British and American English) informed by a second language acquisition (SLA) perspective are prevalent in the Outer Circle, there is a growing recognition of local varieties of Englishes belonging to the world Englishes (WE) paradigm. However, what constitutes an error or a varietal feature is hard to decide, particularly in the absence of codification of non-native Englishes in many Outer Circle contexts. Yet, disti…
Language Planning and Multilingualism
Although multilingualism can be said to be the societal norm, and monolingualism the aberrant condition, classical language policy and planning (i.e., macro planning) has focused on the latter with the development of a single national language within each polity as its primary goal, i.e., the so called “one nation, one language” policy.
Apology
Individual agency in language planning: Chinese script reform as a case study
The literature of language policy and planning (LPP) focuses predominantly on the process of policy formulation and planning programs for implementation, i.e., to use Cooper’s terms, on ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’. The question of the people (‘by whom’ and ‘to whom’) involved in the planning process — i.e. “Who are the actors?” and “What are their roles?” — remains largely unaddressed. Drawing upon experience in the modern history of Chinese script r…
Why educational language plans sometimes fail
Language-in-education policy (decision taking) and planning (decision implementation) are complex processes requiring a number of decisions to be taken and implemented if they are to be successful. While there is research that suggests the factors that lead to successful outcomes, these are often either ignored or too difficult for polities to implement, given their resources. This insufficiency can lead to a waste of resources and a failure to m…
Success or failure of primary second/foreign language programmes in Asia: What do the data tell us
Primary school second/foreign language (SL/FL) programmes in Asia, as well as in other parts of the world, are becoming more common, with many targeting English as the SL or FL. The pressures for such English language programmes come from top-down notions that in a globalised world English is required for societies to be competitive, especially with Asian neighbours, and bottom-up pressures from parents who see English as the key to educational s…
Beyond the Curriculum: A Chinese Example of Issues Constraining Effective English Language Teaching
Studies schools of in English Asia for language example, education China (Adamson, in primary 2004), and Hong secondary Kong ho ls i As for ex ple, Chin (Adamson, 2 4), ong Kong (Evans, 2000), Japan (Oda & Takada, 2005), Taiwan (Chern, 2002), Thailand (Wongsothorn, Hiranburana, & Chinnawongs, 2002), or Vietnam (Le, 2007) have shown that at different times the orientation of English language curricula for schools has been adjusted to meet changing…
Language planning and its problems
There is a growing tendency in Asia, as well as elsewhere in the world, for English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) programs to be implemented in the early years of primary schooling. Vigoro
Language planning and policy: Language Planning in Local Contexts
Language Planning in Local Contexts: Agents, Contexts and Interactions
Language planning and policy in Asia
Will CLT bail out the bogged down ELT in Bangladesh
Rural failure in English learning and the socioeconomics of ELT. Over 24 million children learn English as a second/foreign language in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh. These children start learning the language as a required subject in Grade 1 and continue learning it (if they don't drop out) until Grade 12, and later at the tertiary level. Officially, they are taught English communicatively using Communicative Language Teaching (CLT…
Bernard Spolsky , Language policy
Bernard Spolsky , Language policy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 250, Pb.A$59.95 / US$29.95. In the past five years, several books (Baker 2002, Ricento 2006, Shohamy 2006) and a journal, all entitled Language policy , have appeared, attesting to the interest in this topic. Volumes in this Cambridge series, “Key Topics in Sociolinguistics,” are meant to provide “accessible yet challenging accounts of the most important issu…
Language Planning, Naming and Character Use in China
As Chinese characters (hanzi) have three aspects – as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system – changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through hanzi standardisation, names were set aside as too difficult to reform. But over the last two decades the increasingly acute need for effective mode…
Language policy spread: Learning from health and social policy models
Except for a few large scale projects, language planners have tended to talk and argue among themselves rather than to see language policy development as an inherently political process. A comparison with a social policy example, taken from the United States, suggests that it is important to understand the problem and to develop solutions in the context of the political process, as this is where decisions will ultimately be made
Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?
Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context
Language planning is normally thought of in terms of large-scale, usually national planning, often undertaken by governments and meant to influence, if not change, ways of speaking or literacy practices within a society. It normally encompasses four aspects: status planning (about society), corpus planning (about language), language-in-education (or acquisition) planning (about learning), and (most recently) prestige planning (about image). When …
Coordinating Government and Community Support for Community Language Teaching in Australia: Overview with Special Attention to New South Wales
An overview of formal government language-in-education planning for community languages (CLs) that has been undertaken in Australia and New South Wales is provided, moving from the more informal programmes provided in the 1980s to school-oriented programmes and training at the turn of the century. These programmes depend on community support; for many of the teachers from the communities, methodological training is needed to complement their lang…
Language Planning and Terminological Development for Minority Languages and Minority Language Situations: A Selected Bibliography
(2004). Language Planning and Terminological Development for Minority Languages and Minority Language Situations: A Selected Bibliography. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 176-180
Issues of Prestige and Image in Language-in-Education Planning in Australia
After providing a brief general framework for language policy and planning, this article examines the case of language policy and planning in Australia with a particular focus on how one of the elements in that framework, prestige planning, might contribute to successful planning implementation, thereby adding to our more general understanding of how language planning operates. It is argued that language-in-education planning in Australia, which …
Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context
Language planning is normally thought of in terms of large-scale, usually national planning, often undertaken by governments and meant to influence, if not change, ways of speaking or literacy practices within a society. It normally encompasses four aspects: status planning (about society), corpus planning (about language), language-in-education (or acquisition) planning (about learning), and (most recently) prestige planning (about image). When …
Individual agency in language planning: Chinese script reform as a case study
The literature of language policy and planning (LPP) focuses predominantly on the process of policy formulation and planning programs for implementation, i.e., to use Cooper’s terms, on ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’. The question of the people (‘by whom’ and ‘to whom’) involved in the planning process — i.e. “Who are the actors?” and “What are their roles?” — remains largely unaddressed. Drawing upon experience in the modern history of Chinese script r…
Medium of instruction in Asia: Context, processes and outcomes
One major impact of globalisation on education is denoted by the growing trend to use English, the global language, as a medium of instruction (MOI) in emerging polities that are trying to enhance their English-speaking capacities. This article emphasises developing an understanding of MOI from a language policy and planning as well as an educational perspective. It explores the policy and practice of MOI in 10 polities in Asia including Banglade…
Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?
Current Issues in Language Planning
(2000). Current Issues in Language Planning. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 135-144
Public-private domain distinction as an aspect of LPP frameworks: A case study of Bangladesh
While macro-level language policy and planning (LPP) that is done mainly by governments still dominates thinking in the field, limitations of this focus have been demonstrated by recent broader and more focused conceptualizations of LPP. For instance, global LPP, particularly for languages of wider communication such as English, has received considerable attention. Similarly, studies of meso- and micro-level planning has shown that many LPP decis…
Why educational language plans sometimes fail
Language-in-education policy (decision taking) and planning (decision implementation) are complex processes requiring a number of decisions to be taken and implemented if they are to be successful. While there is research that suggests the factors that lead to successful outcomes, these are often either ignored or too difficult for polities to implement, given their resources. This insufficiency can lead to a waste of resources and a failure to m…
Success or failure of primary second/foreign language programmes in Asia: What do the data tell us
Primary school second/foreign language (SL/FL) programmes in Asia, as well as in other parts of the world, are becoming more common, with many targeting English as the SL or FL. The pressures for such English language programmes come from top-down notions that in a globalised world English is required for societies to be competitive, especially with Asian neighbours, and bottom-up pressures from parents who see English as the key to educational s…
Language planning and its problems
There is a growing tendency in Asia, as well as elsewhere in the world, for English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) programs to be implemented in the early years of primary schooling. Vigoro
Language policy spread: Learning from health and social policy models
Except for a few large scale projects, language planners have tended to talk and argue among themselves rather than to see language policy development as an inherently political process. A comparison with a social policy example, taken from the United States, suggests that it is important to understand the problem and to develop solutions in the context of the political process, as this is where decisions will ultimately be made
Foreign Language Anxiety: Understanding Its Status and Insiders' Awareness and Attitudes
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in all of the cultures where it has been studied, yet the literature provides limited empirical evidence to indicate whether foreign language students and teachers, as the direct stakeholders in the phenomenon, are aware of it. This study investigated the extent to which foreign language students and teachers are aware of the existence of the phenomenon of FLA and their attitudes towards it. …
Second language errors and features of world Englishes
While exocentric norms (e.g. British and American English) informed by a second language acquisition (SLA) perspective are prevalent in the Outer Circle, there is a growing recognition of local varieties of Englishes belonging to the world Englishes (WE) paradigm. However, what constitutes an error or a varietal feature is hard to decide, particularly in the absence of codification of non-native Englishes in many Outer Circle contexts. Yet, disti…
Beyond the Curriculum: A Chinese Example of Issues Constraining Effective English Language Teaching
Studies schools of in English Asia for language example, education China (Adamson, in primary 2004), and Hong secondary Kong ho ls i As for ex ple, Chin (Adamson, 2 4), ong Kong (Evans, 2000), Japan (Oda & Takada, 2005), Taiwan (Chern, 2002), Thailand (Wongsothorn, Hiranburana, & Chinnawongs, 2002), or Vietnam (Le, 2007) have shown that at different times the orientation of English language curricula for schools has been adjusted to meet changing…
Educational television, enculturation, and acculturation: A study of change in American Samoa
Issues of Prestige and Image in Language-in-Education Planning in Australia
After providing a brief general framework for language policy and planning, this article examines the case of language policy and planning in Australia with a particular focus on how one of the elements in that framework, prestige planning, might contribute to successful planning implementation, thereby adding to our more general understanding of how language planning operates. It is argued that language-in-education planning in Australia, which …
Current Issues in Language Planning
Acculturation and Educational Achievement in American Samoan Adolescents
The relationship of educational achievement to overt (the directly observable) and covert (the psychological) measures of acculturation was explored for 190 high school seniors from American Samoa using canonical variate analysis. Three statistically significant and situationally interpretable relationships were found to exist between the overt and covert sets of variables, indicating that multiple acculturative approaches were operating simultan…
Educ1 Library: A Description of Fortran Iv Computer Programs for the IBM Systems 3/10
A library of 20 FORTRAN computer programs has been compiled, modified, and edited to provide in a single source a series of test scoring, data reduction, and evaluation programs for educators having access to small business-oriented computers. Summary details are provided for each program
Acculturation and Educational Achievement in American Samoan Adolescents
The relationship of educational achievement to overt (the directly observable) and covert (the psychological) measures of acculturation was explored for 190 high school seniors from American Samoa using canonical variate analysis. Three statistically significant and situationally interpretable relationships were found to exist between the overt and covert sets of variables, indicating that multiple acculturative approaches were operating simultan…
Preliminary Evidence Regarding the Validity of a Modified Cloze Procedure for Lower Elementary Esl Students
The CLOZE procedure, which research has shown to provide a valid measure of reading achievement, requires language production skills and reading strategies not yet available to elementary school English-second-language (ESL) pupils who are not literate in their vernacular. A modified CLOZE procedure, designed to overcome this problem, was found to have high concurrent validity with traditional vocabulary and reading measures
The Validity of the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency as a General Measure of High School English Achievement in American Samoa
An examination of the relationship between high school English grade point average (GPA) and Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP) test results for 154 English-second-language students (ESL) from 5 high schools in American Samoa indicated the validity of the MTELP as a measure of English language achievement for ESL high school graduates
Why Do Educational Measurement Texts Omit the Cloze Procedure
The cloze procedure has been used by educators for over twenty- five years to measure readability of materials and reading compre hension for both native English and English-second-language speaking students in a wide variety of educational contexts. The cloze procedure has also been used to construct standardized tests, and has generated a relatively large professional literature. Yet, the technique is not mentioned in educational measurement te…
The Predictive Validity of the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency for Teacher Trainees in Papua New Guinea
The Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency was shown to be a reliable and valid predictor of general academic attainment for English-second-language teacher trainees at a Teachers Training College in Papua New Guinea
Educational television, enculturation, and acculturation: A study of change in American Samoa
The Concurrent Validity of Self-Rating with Interviewer Rating on the Australian Second Language Proficiency Ratings Scale
This paper examines the concurrent validity of self-rating and interviewer rating of English as a second language proficiency for a stable population of rural Australian migrants. Ratings obtained for two versions of the Australian Second Language Proficiency Ratings Scale for the macroskills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing indicated that migrants tended to overestimate their proficiency with English. However, the strong correlations…
The Effects of Guessing and Item Dependence on the Reliability and Validity of Recognition Based Cloze Tests
Matching doze and multiple-choice doze tests of elementary level reading comprehension have demonstrated promising construct and concurrent validity. However, their formats include guessing and, in the case of matching cloze, item dependence effects. This study used a Monte Carlo design to examine how these effects influence test characteristics and student scores. First, a true score test with six levels of difficulty was constructed. Then, two …
The Reliability and Factorial Validity of the Self Concept as a Learner (SCAL) Measure for Year Seven Students in Australia
Research on the reliability and validity of Waetjen's (1967) Self-Concept as a Learner Scale (SCAL) was reviewed, and the factorial validity of SCAL's four rational subscales was examined using two samples of year seven Anglo-Australian students. An analysis of reliability estimates suggested that the total scale and three of the subscale scores were consistently reliable measures. Results of the factor analyses of SCAL failed either to confirm t…
Linguistic constraints on participation in psychology
Linguistic constraints on participation in psychology
Language development without planning: A case study of tribal aborigines in the northern territory, Australia
Language development in cross‐cultural contact situations can occur as a result of planned action or reaction, or sometimes emerges through no action at all. The paper describes the influences which have affected the changing sociolinguistic setting for tribal Aborigines. The effects of various governmental and educational policies on language development are highlighted. Much of this historical account portrays an ad hoc and reaction policy to t…
Language reform of spoken Chinese
China is a multinational country with 56 nationalities and a population of more than one billion. The languages people speak are so different that as early as in 1911 people began realising the need for having a standard national language. Mandarin was chosen, but how was the use of it to be spread? This paper, along with a description of the situation of minority languages and Chinese dialects, discusses and analyses language planning and langua…
Fostering bilingualism and national development through school second language study
When we think of bilingualism, we normally first think of someone with substantial skills in two or more languages. However, on more careful consideration, we realise that bilingual language skills vary greatly, depending on the needs they serve and the uses to which they are being put. Queensland, Australia is embarking on a massive limited bilingual primary school second language learning programme, in the limited sense of the term. All student…
Language Planning: From Practice to Theory
Reviewing the field of language policy and planning, this text sets out current practice and ways of thinking about language policy and planning, looking at methodology and the key areas of education, literacy and economics. Case studies of key language planning and policy issues are included
The Language Planning Situation in
(1998). The Language Planning Situation in... Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 358-368
Current Issues in Language Planning
Current Issues in Language Planning
(2000). Current Issues in Language Planning. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 135-144
Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin
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Language Planning and Terminological Development for Minority Languages and Minority Language Situations: A Selected Bibliography
(2004). Language Planning and Terminological Development for Minority Languages and Minority Language Situations: A Selected Bibliography. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 176-180
Issues of Prestige and Image in Language-in-Education Planning in Australia
After providing a brief general framework for language policy and planning, this article examines the case of language policy and planning in Australia with a particular focus on how one of the elements in that framework, prestige planning, might contribute to successful planning implementation, thereby adding to our more general understanding of how language planning operates. It is argued that language-in-education planning in Australia, which …
Coordinating Government and Community Support for Community Language Teaching in Australia: Overview with Special Attention to New South Wales
An overview of formal government language-in-education planning for community languages (CLs) that has been undertaken in Australia and New South Wales is provided, moving from the more informal programmes provided in the 1980s to school-oriented programmes and training at the turn of the century. These programmes depend on community support; for many of the teachers from the communities, methodological training is needed to complement their lang…
Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context
Language planning is normally thought of in terms of large-scale, usually national planning, often undertaken by governments and meant to influence, if not change, ways of speaking or literacy practices within a society. It normally encompasses four aspects: status planning (about society), corpus planning (about language), language-in-education (or acquisition) planning (about learning), and (most recently) prestige planning (about image). When …
Linguistics (29 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (25 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (24 works) · Political science (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (18 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Language planning (17 works) · Philosophy (14 works)