English as the Medium of Instruction for Science and its Effects on the Languages of the Philippines

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Editor's Preface V
3. I. Overall Perspectives and General Models
4. English — the Accidental Language of Science 3
5. When Does Knowledge Have a National Language? Language Policy-Making for Science and Technology 27
6. English and the Language of Science: On the Unity of Language and the Plurality of Languages 59
7. English in the Social Sciences 71
8. The Dominance of English at European Universities Switzerland and Sweden Compared 85
9. The Expansion of English as a Language of Science and Communication: East and Southeast Asia 113
10. II. Countries with a History of English-Language Dominance
11. Speaking of Science: The Use by Australian University Science Staff of Language Skills 139
12. The Penetration of English as Language of Science and Technology into the Israeli Linguistic Repertoire: A Preliminary Enquiry 167
13. Aspects of Scholarly Language Use In Malaysia: Switching Codes in Formal Settings 177
14. English in Science Communication in Hong Kong: Educational Research Output 193
15. English as the Medium of Instruction for Science and its Effects on the Languages of the Philippines 205
16. III. Countries with a History of Foreign Languages for Science Other than, or in Addition to, English
17. The Impact of English as a Language of Science in Finland and its Role for the Transition to Network Society 229
18. The Foreign Language Competence of Hungarian Scholars: Ten Years Later 261
19. Swedish, English, French or German — the Language Situation at Swedish Universities 287
20. IV. Countries with an Own International Language of Science
21. The Languages of Science in France: Public Debate and Language Policies 319
22. English in Linguistic Research in Belgium 329
23. English as a Future Language of Teaching at German Universities? A Question of Difficult Consequences, Posed by the Decline of German as a Language of Science 343
24. English as a Language of Instruction at Austrian Universities 363
25. The Presence of English at Swiss Universities 389
26. English as a Language of Science in Russia 405
27. English in Brazil with an Outlook on its Function as a Language of Science 425
28. English as a Language of Science in Japan From Corpus Planning to Status Planning 447
29. Subject Index 471