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This book explores individual language policy among bilingual youth who belong to different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, through vivid stories detailing their life with multiple languages. It examines the youth's daily language behaviours through the unique theoretical lens of individual language policy, and the ways in which this policy interacts with and is influenced by language policies at macro, meso and micro level. It contributes to research on language and identity, and language policy in non-Anglophone societies and will appeal to a broad international readership, including researchers in sociolinguistics, teachers working with ethnic minority students and policymakers concerned with minority language maintenance around the world.

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In this fascinating book Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen analyses how Vietnamese Indigenous bilingual youth, in the face of discouragement, creatively deploy various language strategies. These are highly innovative and admirable, but they also constitute an individual language policy. In this respect and because of the excellence of the research, this volume constitutes a significant conceptual advance in language policy studies. * Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia * Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen's innovative study of individual language policy in Vietnam is a pleasure to read and a welcome contribution to the field. With this book she has cemented her standing among a small cadre of experts studying Vietnamese language policy and planning. The in depth examination of the experiences of ethnically and linguistically minoritized youth provides an important lesson for us all. * David Cassels Johnson, University of Iowa, USA *

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Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen works at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on language and identity, language policy, language and social justice, language and intercultural communication, multilingualism and minority education.

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