General Aspects

Terminology for language planners
University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
The text presents briefly aspects of terminology and the relation between language planning and non-discriminatory politics. There is an extensive list of bibliography references, very useful for researchers.
Link: http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/~ttrippel/terminology/node22.html

Linguistic Human Rights: A Sociolinguistic Introduction
By Prof. Peter. L Patrick, Dept. of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex
The paper presents a contrasting division between speech communities related with the conception of language rights: Standard language dominance of related dialects, Official language dominance of unrelated languages and Globalization, language death, linguistic imperialism. The author himself admits that the taxonomy probably needs critique and revision, however the ideas are very good for an introductive reflexion regarding the theme.
Link: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/lhr/lhrtypology.htm

CILP Abstracts
This website presents several abstracts of papers relating with the theme. There is also the contact with the authors; it could be useful for further researches.
Link: http://www.cilp.net/abs2001.html#lopes


Globalization and Education in the Postcolonial World: towards a conceptual framework
By Leon Tilkly, Comparative Education Volume 37 No. 2 2001, p. 151–171, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
The paper explores the relationship between globalization and education in low income as the case of the postcolonial countries and the question of education with special attention to the education systems of sub-Saharan. The author’s point of view firmly estates that education cannot succeed alone to support the resistance of other languages and an educational reform would to be only successful if articulates broader processes and struggles.
Link: http://education.eastwestcenter.org/education2020/pre-institute%20readings/Tikly.pdf

Balance of the Current Sociolinguistic Research: New Trends and New Paradigms
By Lachman Khubchandani, X Linguapax Congress, Linguistic Diversity, Sustainability and Peace, Barcelona, 19-23 May 2004
The text is a report of a workshop moderated by Mr. Khubchandani and it presents a discussion regarding globalization forces towards multilingual societies and the role of policy-making agencies. The debate covered several situations, from Israel, Canada, South Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea to multilingual settings in the European Union, as the issues of revitalizing Catalan, Irish, Latvian and other languages of regional and immigrant minorities (such as Corsican, Sicilian, Frisian, etc).
Link: http://www.linguapax.org/congres04/pdf/khubchandani.pdf

Planning Language, Planning Inequality
A review about the book “Planning Language, Planning Inequality”, by James Tollefson, 1991 New York: Longman. Pp. 234.
The review points up some main aspects that should be considered in the study of language planning and were analyzed by Tollefson. In the book there is a discussion regarding the paradox to the institutional constraints of language planning and its consequences to create an unbalance – cultural inequalities between minority and majority groups are maintained – through language policy unequal social structures are reinforced.
Link: http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej01/r.2.html

Language Policy and Planning
CAL Resource Guides Online
This website is very useful to study this topic, although the guide provides materials on general topics in language policy and language planning with a focus on North America. It gives the visitors several research fonts, like journals, books, bibliography, websites and other documents regarding the theme.
Link: http://www.cal.org/resources/faqs/rgos/policy.html


A Case Study of Language Planning in Jordan
Abstract: Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1985
The abstract of the Ph.D. Dissertation developed by Al-Haq is very short, but in there we can find some main ideas of the work, like the “desire and commitment of faculty members and students alike to proceed with Arabicization”, despite problems connected with the lack of technical terms in scientific fields. The speech varieties in use in Jordan are English, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic.

Link: http://ling.wisc.edu/abstracts/alhaq.htm