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Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education - Policies, Provision, and the National Interest

Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education - Policies, Provision, and the National Interest

Jennifer Joan Baldwin

 

Verlag Springer-Verlag, 2019

ISBN 9783030057954 , 262 Seiten

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Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education - Policies, Provision, and the National Interest


 

Dedication

6

Contents

7

Abbreviations

10

List of Tables

12

Chapter 1: Introduction

13

1.1 Australia: The British Colony

13

1.2 Research Questions

15

1.3 Themes

17

1.4 Discussion of Literature and Other Sources

20

1.5 Overview of the Book

25

1.6 Conclusion

27

Chapter 2: The Founding of Australian Universities

29

2.1 The Foundation of Universities in the Colonies

30

2.2 Two British Colonies: Canada and New Zealand

32

2.3 A Second University in Melbourne, Australia

33

2.4 A Third Colonial University in Adelaide

35

2.5 The Later Colonial Universities

36

2.6 The Language Offerings of the Universities

38

2.7 The Importance of the Classical Languages

38

2.8 Modern European Languages

41

2.9 The Melbourne Solution for More Languages

48

2.10 Asian Languages

50

2.11 Conclusion

54

Chapter 3: Post-War Expansion

56

3.1 Post-World War II Australia

58

3.2 The Mills Report: The First Reckoning

61

3.3 Murray Report and More Commonwealth Control

63

3.4 Martin Report: A New Framework for Higher Education

66

3.5 The First Survey of Language Teaching

70

3.6 Auchmuty Report: The First Asian Languages Report

71

3.7 Concurrent Language Surveys: Kramer and the Academy of the Humanities

72

3.8 The Galbally Report: Migrant Services and Programs

76

3.9 National Policy on Languages

79

3.10 The Dawkins Era: Reforms and More Reports

80

3.11 Conclusion

84

Chapter 4: Australia: Both Multicultural and Multilingual

86

4.1 Migration to Australia

87

4.2 Academic Interest in Migrant Languages

91

4.3 Assimilation to Integration

93

4.4 The End of the White Australia Policy and the White Zealand Policy

96

4.5 Kramer Report: A Timely Report into Languages

99

4.6 A New Government in a New Era

101

4.7 Galbally Report: A Report for Migrant Services

102

4.8 The Consequences for Community Languages

106

4.9 The Fortunes of Ukrainian and Yiddish: Case Studies

109

4.10 Conclusion

113

Chapter 5: Three Trade Languages: Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian

115

5.1 Australia/Japan Contact Begins with Trade

116

5.2 Japanese Language

117

5.3 Defence Needs Japanese Skills

120

5.4 From Defence Needs to Trade Needs

121

5.5 The Influence of Universities on Japanese in Schools

123

5.6 Chinese Migration to Australia

125

5.7 Trade and Diplomacy with China

127

5.8 The Imperative for Chinese Language Teaching

128

5.9 Oriental and Asian Studies Expand

130

5.10 Official Recognition of China

133

5.11 Indonesia: Trade First Then Security and Defence

135

5.12 Government Commitment to Indonesian Language Teaching

137

5.13 Auchmuty and Kramer Reports: Stocktakes for All Languages

139

5.14 The Testing of Diplomatic Relations and Language Popularity

140

5.15 Conclusion

144

Chapter 6: Three Strategic Languages: Russian, Korean and Arabic

146

6.1 Early Australian Relationships with Russia

148

6.2 Russian Language Begins at University of Melbourne

150

6.3 Collapse of Soviet Union

155

6.4 Australia’s Relationship with Korea

157

6.5 Arabic: A Pluricentric and Religious Language

161

6.6 Arabic as a Scholarly Language

161

6.7 Arabic as a Migrant Language

163

6.8 Arabic as a Trade Language

166

6.9 Waning Support for Arabic in the Universities

167

6.10 Conclusion

168

Chapter 7: Languages in the 1990s: The Context and the Changes

169

7.1 Comparison of University Languages Structures

170

7.2 A Case Study of the University of Melbourne

172

7.3 A Review of Languages

178

7.4 The New School of Languages at the University of Melbourne

181

7.5 Other Universities’ Languages Structures in 1999

183

7.6 Political Implications for Languages

186

7.7 Reports from the Academic Sector

187

7.8 Conclusion

190

Chapter 8: The Asian or Global Century?

191

8.1 Government Languages Policy from Mid 1990s to Early 2000s

192

8.2 Internationalisation

195

8.3 Differing Understanding of the Role of Languages

196

8.4 Australia in the Asian Century

198

8.5 The New Colombo Plan

199

8.6 The Languages Component of the Australian Curriculum

201

8.7 The Stakeholders for Languages

203

8.8 Current Issues: Collaborative Arrangements

204

8.9 New Models: University of Melbourne and UWA

206

8.10 New Countries (and Languages) of National Interest?

208

8.11 The Global Perspective: Languages Elsewhere in the English-Speaking World

209

8.12 Conclusion

213

Chapter 9: Conclusion

214

Appendices

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Appendix 1

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Appendix 2

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Appendix 3

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Appendix 4

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Appendix 5

225

Appendix 6

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Appendix 7

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Appendix 8

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Bibliography

231

Primary

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Government Reports, Records and Legislation

231

Academic Reports and Surveys, Conference Proceedings

236

University Records and Official Publications

238

Newspapers

245

Theses

246

Secondary

246

Books, Articles and Websites

246