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    Language teaching and learning: choice, pedagogy, rationale and goals.
    Lo Bianco, J ; SLAUGHTER, Y (AFMLTA, 2009)
    In his examination of successful innovation and change in education in many settings, Fullan (2001) identifies the three broad options for effecting change that public authorities have at their disposal. They can seek to bring about change through imposing accountability (system-wide or targeted), or through providing incentives (either "negatively" as pressure or "positively" as support), or they can direct their attention towards "capacity-building" for key agents in the field being addressed, such as teachers, schools or universities. The review of Australian language policy shows that rarely has there been a consistent process of building on previous innovation and rarely are these three meta-strategies of accountability, incentives and capacity-building used in the judicious combination which is most likely to succeed. A central feature of education policy making is the critical, professional role of teachers and it would be to this that a capacity-building approach would be directed. This article discusses choice, pedagogy, rationale and goals in language teaching and learning. Key values and aspirations for proficiency in languages other than English relevant to the Australian context are also explored.
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    Language teaching and learning: Some hard decisions.
    Lo Bianco, J ; SLAUGHTER, Y (AFMLTA, 2009)
    In his examination of successful innovation and change in education in many settings, Fullan (2001) identifies the three broad options for effecting change that public authorities have at their disposal. They can seek to bring about change through imposing accountability (system-wide or targeted), or through providing incentives (either ‘negatively’as pressure or ‘positively’as support), or they can direct their attention towards ‘capacity-building’for key agents in the field being addressed, such as teachers, schools or universities. It is exceedingly difficult to combine accountability, incentives, and capacity-building, as evidenced by the fact that no government has ever done it effectively. It is complex and there are in-built tensions. It is easy to err in providing too much or too little control.
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    Viet Nam: Quoc Ngu, colonialism and language policy: East Asian perspectives
    LO BIANCO, J ; GOTTLIEB, N ; CHEN, P (Curzon Press, 2001)
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    Contrasting and Comparing Minority Language Policy: Europe and Australia
    Lo Bianco, J ; Pauwels, A ; Winter, J ; Lo Bianco, J (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007)
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    Making language education
    Lo Bianco, J (BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 2003)
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    Language education in Australia: Italian and Japanese as symbols of cultural policy
    LO BIANCO, J ; BOURNE, J ; REID, E (Kogan Page Publishers, 2003)
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    Language policies: State texts for silencing and giving voice
    LO BIANCO, J ; FREEBODY, P ; MUSPRATT, S ; DWYER, B (Hampton Press, 2001)
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    Multiliteracies and Multilingualism
    LO BIANCO, J ; Cope, B ; Kalantzis, M (Routledge, 2000)
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    Language Planning as Applied Linguistics
    Lo Bianco, J ; DAVIES, AD ; ELDER, CE (Wiley, 2008-01-21)