Agency in Multilingual Education Policy and Planning in Asia

Foreword

NANCY H. HORNBERGER

Acknowledgements

1 The Macro (Structure) and Micro (Agency) Dialectic in Multilingual Education Policy and Planning Contexts

SYED ABDUL MANAN AND ANAS HAJAR

2 Beyond the Hegemony of National Language-in-Education Policy: Creating Multilingual Environments Through Local Agency in a Marginalized School Context in Bangladesh

M. MAKSUD ALI AND M. OBAIDUL HAMID

3 Translanguaging as Agentive Resistance to Hegemonic Language Policy Mandates: Making a Case for a Self- Reflexive Stance in Teacher Agency Development in India

PADMINI BHUYAN BORUAH AND AJIT KUMAR MOHANTY

4 "Making Up" for the Trilingual Policy Tensions: A Snapshot of the "Ground-Up" Appropriation and Coping Strategies

SYED ABDUL MANAN AND ANAS HAJAR

5 Teachers as Policy Navigators amidst Bureaucratized Language Policy Regimes in Pakistan

ZIA UR REHMAN BAZAI, STEFANIE PILLAI, AND SYED ABDUL MANAN

6 Silence as Agency: Unpacking and Addressing Resistance to Multilingualism and Multilingual Pedagogies

RUANNI TUPAS AND CECILIA A. SUAREZ

7 School Administrators' Agency in Planning Language of Instruction: But for Whom?

PRAMOD K. SAH

8 Micro Language Planning in the EMI Classroom in Hong Kong: The Role of Student Agency

CHIT CHEUNG MATTHEW SUNG

9 Empowering Educators: Unravelling Teacher Agency in Navigating Convergent Management for International Students in Chinese Higher Education

YAWEN HAN AND HAOXUAN KONG

10 Teacher Agency in Negotiating English Language Class Writing for Young Learners in Singapore

DONNA LIM AND KIREN KAUR

11 Empowering Preservice Teachers' Agency in Multilingual Practices: A Formative Intervention Design in an Australian Teacher Education Program

HONGZHI YANG

Afterword: What LPP Actors Can Do to Contain the "English Fever"

PETER I. DE COSTA