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Situating Language Acquisition Planning

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Language Policy and Language Acquisition Planning

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The present chapter traces the development of language acquisition planning. It begins by considering the work of Robert L. Cooper, who placed language acquisition planning alongside corpus planning and status planning as a fundamental type of language planning. While corpus planning focuses on language form and status planning on language function, acquisition planning focuses on language users and how they acquire the communicative repertoires they need for access to opportunities in society. It is thus central to the management of language teaching and learning in both formal and informal settings. Contemporary issues in language planning and policy across contexts and levels of education are addressed. Language acquisition planning, it is argued, is multifaceted, involving a continuum of issues from the psychological to the societal. Research spanning this continuum is discussed, with attention to conceptual orientations and methodological approachess.

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  1. Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Maarja Siiner

  2. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Francis M. Hult

  3. Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Tanja Kupisch

  4. Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Tanja Kupisch

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    Francis M. Hult

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Siiner, M., Hult, F.M., Kupisch, T. (2018). Situating Language Acquisition Planning. In: Siiner, M., Hult, F., Kupisch, T. (eds) Language Policy and Language Acquisition Planning. Language Policy, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75963-0_1

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