This volume covers the language situation in Malawi, Mozambique and the Philippines explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors, Edrinnie Kayambazinthu, Armando Jorge Lopes and Andrew Gonzales, are indigenous and have been participants in the language planning context. To date, Mozambique and Malawi have not been well represented in the international language policy/planning literature. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well-known to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume joins a series which is currently committed to providing descriptions of The Czech Republic, Hungary, The Ivory Coast, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan and Tunisia.
About the Author: Robert B. Kaplan is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of California. He has published numerous books and articles in refereed journals and written several special reports to governments both in the US and elsewhere. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and is a member of the editorial board of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. He has served as President of the National Association for Foreign Students Affairs, of TESOL, and of the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Richard B. Baldauf, Jr is Associate Professor and Director of the University of Sydney Language Centre and President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books. He is co-editor of Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific (Multilingual Matters, 1990), principal researcher and editor for the Viability of Low Candidature LOTE Courses in Universities (DEET, 1995) and co-author with Robert B. Kaplan of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (Multilingual Matters, 1997).