Researching Agency in Language Policy and Planning

Gregory Paul Glasgow, an assistant professor at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, conducts research on the impact of language education policy on teacher agency and pedagogical practice. His latest book chapters appear in the volume Professional Development of English Language Teachers in Asia: Lessons from Japan and Vietnam　(Routledge).Jeremie Bouchard is associate professor at Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan. His research is a sociological exploration of language emerging from the complex relationship between culture, structure and agency. His latest monograph is titled　Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence.

• IntroductionGregory Paul Glasgow and Jeremie Bouchard1 Torn between two nation-states: Agency and power in linguistic identity negotiation in minority contextsLucija Šimičić2 Agency in bottom-up language planning: Motives of language maintenance in the South Sudanese community of AustraliaAniko Hatoss3 Challenges to nationalism in language planning: Street names in MalaysiaPeter KW Tan4 Exploring agency and language choice in Semai language maintenanceEsther F. Boucher-Yip5 Agency and language-in-education policy in Vietnamese higher educationObaidul Hamid, Huong Thu Nguyen, Huy Van Nguyen and T.T. Huyen Phan6 Mediating teacher candidate sense of agency in response to policy and curricula planning in a community-based adult English language programSarina Chugani Molina7 Trans-semiotising pedagogy as an agentive response to monolingual language policy: an Australian case studySue Ollerhead