Multilingualisms and Development is the latest in the proceedings of the ongoing Language & Development Conference series. This volume brings together twenty of the most important presentations from the 11th Language & Development Conference, which took place in New Delhi, India, in 2015. One of the objectives of the conference was that mother-tongue-based multilingualism in developing world contexts should not only be described and its achievements celebrated, but also that it should be subjected to critical scrutiny and its limits identified. The conference also aimed to examine the growing phenomenon of low-cost so-called English-medium education establishments serving disadvantaged communities. Additionally, the conference considered whether current work on linguistic super-diversity in the cities of the West has any relevance for the vast urban areas of Asia and Africa.
MULTILINGUALISMS AND DEVELOPMENT Selected proceedings of the 11th Language & Development Conference, New Delhi, India 2015 Edited by Hywel Coleman
These issues and others are explored in the contributions to this book. The volume is organised in four parts: Ÿ Ÿ Ÿ Ÿ
Multilingualism, marginalisation and empowerment Mother-tongue-based multilingual education Multilingualism and the metropolis English in a multilingual world.
A discussion by Professor D.P. Pattanayak prefaces the collection, while an agenda for further research into multilingualism and development forms an appendix.
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