Forging Multilingual Spaces

This collection, is well-designed, highly readable, and provides many insights useful beyond the case examples from the two continents covered.

-- Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences

The book offers a global perspective of the impact of overt and covert language education policies on the use and perceptions of majority and minority languages in society as well as on the implementation of bilingual programs in the classroom. This volume constitutes a useful resource for policymakers genuinely invested in the promotion of minority languages in their countries, as well as for researchers and students of teacher preparation programs interested in gaining a better, more global, understanding of the complexities of second and foreign language teaching and the (negative) repercussions that certain linguistic policies have on the maintenance and spread of minority languages and ~n the daily lives of their speakers.

-- Francisco Ramos, Department of Language and Culture in Education, School of Education, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California * Language Policy (2011) 10:73-