Promoting Diversity through Language-in-Education Policies: Focus on Australia and the European Union.

Promoting diversity has become a prominent goal in language-in-education policy discourse in tow broad context. On the one hand, language policies take on the challenge on maintaining and developing de facto linguistic and cultural diversity through language acquisition planing; on the other hand, they portray themselves as active agents of social change and aim to develop positive cross-cultural attitudes through language education. This paper these two main aspects of language-in-education policies. The discussion focused on the Australian and European policy discourses. These two contexts offer an interesting point of comparison as they represent Western democracies with a highly multicultural and multi-ethnic population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]