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Joe Lo Bianco
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Australia
Interests/Expertise:
- Language Policy and Planning
- Literacy and Literacy Education
- Script and Semiotics
- English in Asia and English Spread
- Multilinguism, socio-linguistics, Social Capital and language in Multicultural societies
- Globalisation
- Intercultural Education
- Language and Nationalism and other kinds of community and social identity
Recent research/consultancy:
Current academic research and policy activities include
UNICEF Research Director, Language, Education and Social Cohesion, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma and Thailand; and Preparation of Peace Building National Language Policy, Myanmar;
Academic advisor, National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University;
Research advisor for LUCIDE, an EC project on Languages in Urban Communities, completing in 2014 a 4 year research project on multilingualism at the municipal level in 12 European cities;
Immediate Past and Inaugural President of the Tsinghua, Asia Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies;
Other
Royal Thai Council: Language Planning in Thailand
ASEAN: Socio-cultural Community in South- East Asia
Past President, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Recognitions, positions, memberships:
- Bachelor of Economics, Monash University, 1976, (Majors in Economics and Political Science)
- Graduate Diploma in Migration Studies, Monash University, 1979, (Studies in Applied Linguistics, Social Psychology and Sociology)
- Master of Arts in Language Studies, University of Melbourne, 1986, (Thesis 65, 000 words) on Second Language Acquisition Through Bilingual Education ) Awarded First Class Honours
- Bachelor of Education, La Trobe University, 1987, (Studies in Anthropology of Education, Curriculum Planning, Linguistics and Language Teaching)
- Company Directors’ Diploma, Australian Institute of Company Directors and University of Sydney Graduate School of Business; pass with order of merit; 1996 (Studies in Corporations Law, Finance and Company Management)
- Doctor of Philosophy , The Australian National University, 2001, Officialising Language: Discourse, English and Public Policy in the United States.
Selected publications:
130 publications on language, policy and planning, language education, literacy, culture and identity.
In press are Aldo and the Meridian Line, a novel in the Mountain of Su Dongpo series, (with T. Hay and Y. Wang) and a volume on Language and Identity in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia (with Fethi Hilal).
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