ERIC ED481305: Voices from Phnom Penh. Development & Language: Global Influences & Local Effects.

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Voices from Phnom Penh. Development & Language: Global
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Influences & Local Effects.
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DESCRIPTORS
Education; Elementary Secondary Education; *English (Second
Language); Ethnicity; Foreign Countries; Gender Issues;
Higher Education; Indigenous Populations; Intercultural
Communication; Language Usage; Language of Instruction;
Literacy Education; Native Speakers; *Partnerships in
Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Socioeconomic
Status; Student Evaluation; Sustainable Development
Cambodia; China; East Timor; Language Policy; Laos; Malaysia;
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Open q^,-ity; Philippines; Self Monitoring; Sri Lanka;
Sustainability; Vernacular Education; Vietnam
ABSTRACT
This collection of papers is based on the 5th International
Conference on Language and Development: Defining the Role of Language in
Development, held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2001. The 25 papers include the
"Destitution, Wealth, and Cultural Contest: Language and
following:
(1)
"English and East
Development Connections" (Joseph Lo Bianco);
(2)
"Partnership in Initial Teacher Education" (Bao
Timor" (Roslyn Appleby);
(3)
"Indigenous Languages for Development: The
Kham and Phan Thi Bich Ngoc);
(4)
"Building Institutional
Philippine Experience" (Nestor Castro);
(5)
"International Languages in
Capacity" (Suos Man and Sok Luong Chan);
(6)
Education in Developing Countries: Implications for Cambodia" (Thomas
(7) "Evaluating Development Programs: Time to Watch Our
Clayton);
"Making the Cap Fit: Culture in Higher
Language" (Hywel Coleman);
(8)
"Language Policy, Literacy
Education Reform" (Jacqueline Dyer);
(9)
Development, and Book Sector Development" (Martin Ferns);
"Gender,
(10)
Language and Power in Community-Based Programs" (Lilliana Hajncl and Barbara
(11) "Language in Development: The Open Society
Fitzgerald);
(12) "Language, Textbooks and Perspectives on
Institute" (Robert Hausmann);
(13) "Multilingual Literacy
Social Harmony in Sri Lanka" (David Hayes);
(14) "In
Development: Success in a Difficult Environment" (Margaret Hill);
the Field: Inter-Cultural Communication through Radio and Other Media" (Kaz
"Language, Development and Political
Janoski and Monica Janoski);
(15)
(16) "Vernacular Literacy in Community
Correctness" (Psyche Kenett);
(17) "Applying the
Development: The Chong of Thailand" (Kimmo Kosonen);
Findings of Cognitive Psychologists in a Resource Poor Teaching
(18) "Globalisation Power and Hegemony in
Environment" (Gaylene Levesque);
Language Development" (Shane P. Martin and Edmundo F. Litton);
"The
(19)
Return on Investment from the Donor's Perspective" (Bonaventure Mbida-
(20) "Sustainability Revisited: Insights from a Multiliteracies
Essama);
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(21) "Second Languages in Ethnic and
Project in Malaysia" (Moses Samuel);
Linguistic Diversity in Laos" (Souvanixay Mythong, Nouannavong Onekeo,
"A Distance Education Program in
Keovongsa Khounmi, and Gary Ovington);
(22)
(23) "A Sustainable Testing
an Area of Ethnic Insurgency" (Richard Sproat);
(24) "Self-
System for Distance Education in Vietnam" (Quoc Hung Tran);
Monitoring Capabilities: Teacher Education and TEFL in Vietnam" (Ha Van
Sinh); and (25) "Foreign Languages and Development: German in China" (Ulrich
Wannagat). (Papers contain references.)
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Voices From Phnom Penh
Development & Language:
Global Influences & Local Effects
Reflections from a conference in Phnom Penh on the complex
interaction between economically conceived progress and indicators
of communication-language
Editor
Joseph Lo Bianco
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Mu Education
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EDUCATION POR DEVELOPMENT
published by
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Voices from Phnom Penh. Development & language: global influences & local effects.
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Voices from Phnom Penh : development & language : global influences & local effects.
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ISBN 1 876768 50 9.
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Contents
Preface:
1
Paul Mahony & Geoffrey Crewes
Destitution, wealth, and cultural contest:
3
1.
language & development connections
Joseph Lo Bianco
23
English and East Timor
2.
Roslyn Appleby
Partnership in initial teacher education
37
3.
Bao Kham & Phan Thi Bich Ngoc
Indigenous languages for development:
67
4.
the Philippine experience
Nestor Castro
Building institutional capacity
75
5.
Suos Man & Sok Luong Chan
International languages in education in developing
87
6.
countries: implications for Cambodia
Thomas Clayton
Evaluating development programs: time to watch
103
7.
our language
Hywel Coleman
Making the cap fit: culture in higher education
117
8.
reform
Jacqueline Dyer
Language policy, literacy development, and book
127
9.
sector development
Martin Ferns
10. Gender, language and power in community-based
143
programs
Lilliana Hajncl & Barbara Fitzgerald
11. Language in development:
153
the Open Society Institute
Robert Hausmann
VOICES FROM PHNOM PENH
12. Language, textbooks and perspectives on social
181
harmony in Sri Lanka
David Hayes
205
13. Multilingual literacy development:
success in a difficult environment
Margaret Hill
14. In the Field: inter-cultural communication
221
through radio and other media
Kaz knoski & Monica 3anoski
15. Language, development and political correctness
235
Psyche Kennett
16. Vernacular literacy in community development:
243
the Chong of Thailand
Kimmo Kosonen
17. Applying the findings of cognitive psychologists
261
in a resource poor teaching environment
Gaylene Levesque
18. Globalisation power and hegemony in language
269
development
Shane P Martin & Edmundo F. Litton
19. The return on investment from the donor's
277
perspective
Bonaventure Mbida-Essama
20. Sustainability revisited: insights from a
287
multiliteracies project in Malaysia
Moses Samuel
21. Second languages in ethnic and linguistic diversity
295
in Laos
Souvanixay Mythong, Nouannavong Onekeo,
Keovongsa Khounmi & Gary Ovington
22. A distance education program in an area of ethnic
303
insurgency
Richard Sproat
23. A sustahiable testing system for distance education
313
in Vietnam
Ouoc Hung Tran
24. Self-monitoring capabilities: teacher education and
325
TEFL in Vietnam
Ha Van Sinh
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25. Foreign languages and development: German in
337
China
Ulrich Wannagat
Author biographies
362
Acronyms and abbreviations
366
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Preface
of lan-
This publication manifests the increasing recognition being given to the field
the direct outcome of
guage and development. While the papers in this collection are
contribution to a domain that
one conference in Phnom Penh, they clearly represent a
is beginning to interest us all. At the time of publication, many world communities are
directly confronting the issue of how we bridge the economic divide and communicate
across humanity.
Those involved in the Language and Development conference series have been
working to bridge this economic and cultural divide for the past decade. The conference
has provided a mechanism for those engaged in development and those with an under-
standing of communication issues to gather and to define their place in an emerging,
globalised context. This bi-annual conference series has become established precisely
because the various language and development communities have recognised that lan-
conference attracted language and
guage and development are linked. The Phnom Penh
literacy professionals, project managers, advisors and staff, donors, development stud-
ies faculty and students, as well as a range of other development workers who connect
began a decade
to the relevance of communication in their development work. What
Southeast Asia has now become an
ago as predominantly a regional conference for
international conference with participants from all continents.
The Language and Development Conference series began at the Asian Institute of
Technology in Bangkok in April 1993. This resulted in the publication of Language and
Development, Teachers in a Changing World (Kenny and Savage, Longman 1997). The
second conference was held in Bali in May 1995. Selected papers from Bali were pub-
lished as Language and Development (Crooks and Crewes, IALF, 1995) and in a volume
entitled ESP in Southeast Asia (Crooks, IALF, 1996). The third conference was held in
Langkawi, Malaysia in July 1997. Conference proceedings were published by the Na-
tional Institute of Public Administration in Malaysia. The Asian Institute of Technol-
October 1999, and selected
ogy, Vietnam, hosted the fourth conference in Hanoi in
Lubelska and Noullet, AIT
papers were published in Partnership and Interaction (Shaw,
2000).
In Cambodia, the conference was hosted by IDP Education Australia in collabora-
tion with the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Royal University of Phnom Penh,
and Language Australia: The National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia.
This conference attracted 212 representatives from 29 countries for the full three days
of its duration, including 42 Cambodian nationals. A further 76 Cambodians from local
educational institutions attended for one afternoon of the conference dedicated spe-
cifically to English language teaching. Eight local and international non-government
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organistations (NG0s) presented a memorable plenary poster session focussing on com-
municating to non-literate communities on survival issues, ranging from mine aware-
health to child trafficking. Partici-
ness to tobacco awareness, HIV and reproductive
pants bridged the development divide in many ways.
It will
At the time of publication, the next conference is being planned for 2003.
conference out of
be held on 15-17 October in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, thus taking the
the Southeast Asian region for the first time. Readers of this publication are encour-
for
aged to visit the conference website at <http://www.idpcambodia.org/conference>
including Tashkent in 2003, and particu-
more information on the conference series,
larly on the Phnom Penh conference itself.
The numerous organisers of the 2001 conference produced a professional and en-
of
joyable experience for all participants. We acknowledge the significant contributions
and Ms
Dr Richard Webber, Mme Solange Marguerite, Mr In The, Ms Chan Sok Luong
Psyche Kennett to the quality of the conference program.
Australia for
We are indebted to Professor Joseph Lo Bianco AM and Language
their editorial and publishing expertise.
of
This collection of papers is dedicated to the Rector of the Royal University
Phnom Penh, Mr Pit Chamnan and his colleagues, not only for their support of the 2001
conference, but also in recognition of their untiring commitment to the rehabilitation
of the education sector in Cambodia.
Geoffrey Crewes
Paul Mahony
IALF: Education for Development
IDP Education Australia (Cambodia)
Member, Steering Committee
Conference Coordinator
This publication has been funded by IDP Education Australia (Cambodia) and the IALF:
Education for Development (Indonesia).
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