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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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    Making language education
    Lo Bianco, J (BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 2003)
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    Invented languages and new worlds
    LO BIANCO, J (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004-04)
    THE LIFE of a language involves relationships between linguistic elements and extra-linguistic contexts. The linguistic elements are varied and multiple, involving both written and spoken symbols and grammars, while the extra-linguistic contexts are the innumerable societies, cultures, and sub-cultures of humankind, including its worlds of reality, imagination, and ideology. This article discusses invented languages, partly in order to explore the motivations and schemes of their inventors and partly to compare languages created for international use (often called international auxiliary languages or IALs) with English, which itself functions as an IAL but is very much an uninvented language.
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    Review: The changing face of electoral politics in Sri Lanka (1994-2004) by L. Jayasuriya
    LO BIANCO, J (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2005)
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    Broadcasting, intergenerational bilingualism and the Red Book
    LO BIANCO, J ( 2009)
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    UNESCO, Literacy and Leslie Limage
    Lo Bianco, J (UNIV TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY-UTS EPRESS, 2009)
    Rosie Wickert points out that, in literacy policy: ‘the stories of actors involved in policy struggles have been overlooked‘(2001: 90). The paper by Leslie Limage redresses this gap for the crucially important area of international multilateral agencies, specifically the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.  Her aim is to produce ‘a more clear-eyed look at how to advance the best of multilateral action in the field in which I have been involved at all levels throughout my adult life: children’s and adult’s literacy worldwide’ (Limage, 2009: p 7).
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    Multiculturalism and the national policy on languages∗
    Bianco, JL (Informa UK Limited, 1988-01)
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