Ms.

Shelkeit Barrun
Name of Student

Activity 1

LINGUISTICS 103, TTH, 01:00 PM- 02:30 PM

Subject and Time

Mrs. Lorelie Marie Enar

Name of Instructor
1. Why language program and policies are necessary in Multilingual
societies?

Answer:

Language programs and policies are necessary in multilingual societies, it

is because to make sure to have easiest access of those in smaller number
of populations to the high forms of national standard of languages and the
ability to read and write.
While giving assistance to the intergenerational preservation of minority
languages, which both includes indigenous and immigrant languages.

2. What is language program and policies?

Answer:

According to my research from the definition.com, it is said that

language program and policies is what a government does inside a certain
country either officially through legislation, court decisions or policy to
determine how language are used, cultivate language skills is needed to
meet national priorities or to establish the night of individuals or groups
to use and maintain languages.
As what I have understood, language policies are the rules or a guide of
how we use our good skills in language to a rightful way to establish
good language’s existent.

3. How the language policy affect multilingualism?

Answer:

According to the Language policy for multilingualism, “ The policy of

promotion of multilingualism aims at measures that eliminate, or at least
reduce, the factors that leads to language loss. It encourage the use of
 many languages in the private domain. It ensure that the use of many
languages in the public domain is non- discriminatory”.
As I have read and realized the text, I understand that the language
policies has brought big affect to multilingualism because it reduce,
maintain and observe how languages is use and when to be used that
varies in a specific areas, either in private domain or public domain.

4. Research on the language policies in the Philippines.

Answer:

As what I have researched on the internet, I found an expressive study.

According to the language policies in the Philippines, “ The language
policy in our country is as follows:
●the maintenance of English as an international language for the
Philippines and as a non- exclusive language of science and technology.
●Filipino and English shall be used as media of instruction, the used
allocated to specific subjects in the curriculum as indicated in the
Department Order.