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Language Policy and Planning in Australia

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William Eggington
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Australian federal and state government language policy and planning efforts have had a remarkable effect on Australian educational and non-educational life during the past twenty years. This effort has resulted in strong international recognition of the Australian language policy experience. For example, Romaine, in the introduction to her anthology focusing on the languages of Australia states that “the movement to set up a national language policy is so far unprecedented in the major Anglophone countries” (Romaine 1991:8).

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 14 , March 1994 , pp. 137 - 155
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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