LANGUAGE

POLICY:

WHAT IS IT AND WHAT

IT CAN DO

REPORTER: BACUBAC, MA.

RACHEL DC.
ABE – 2ND YEAR
 LANGUAGE POLICY:

is what a government does either officially

through legislation, court decisions, or
policy to determine how languages are
used, cultivate language skills needed to
meet national priorities, or to establish the
rights of individuals or groups to use and
maintain languages.
  Language policy refers
ACCORDING TO to all language
LINGUISTS: practices, beliefs, and
management decisions
of a community. It
constitutes an attempt
by someone to
manipulate the
linguistic behavior of
some community for
some reason.
 INTRODUCTION - LANGUAGE
POLICY:
According to Kaplan and Baldauf (1997), “A language policy is a
body of ideas, laws, regulations, rules, and practices”
Lo Bianco defines the field as specific history and local
circumstances influence.
McCarty (2011) defines language policy as "a complex
sociocultural process [and as] modes of human interaction,
negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power.
Spolsky (2007), language policy has three “interrelated, but
interdependent” components.
o Language ideology
o Language practices
o Language management
Language ideology
 are morally and politically loaded representations of the
structure and use of languages in a social world.

Language practices
 is the practice of working with language.

Language management
provides a versatile framework for interrogating the
dynamics attendant to language in society in general and
language-in-education specifically.
 LANGUAGE POLICY:
LINGUISTIC
PERSPECTIVE

Language policy consists of

the authoritative allocation of
resources to language and
pertains either to the status of
the language for which policy
is designed.
 is similar to the more
THE CULTURE OF general political culture of
LANGAUGE POLICY the participating
authorities.
CULTURE – SPECIFIC
• Refers to the distinctive quality of
a particular culture. It can be a
method of studying intercultural
communication.

INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION
• Refers to the communication
between people from two different
cultures.
 LANGUAGE POLICY: PUBLIC
POLICY PERSPECTIVE

involves the governance of diversity arising

from historical configurations, recent
immigration, or both.
 WORKPLACE – employees are expected
to communicate in an honest, clear,
efficient, client-oriented, polite, and
professional way.
LANGUAGE
POLICY/PLAN- EDUCATION – disseminating knowledge
at varying levels.
NING
OFFICIALLY
BODIES ARE: SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS -
language Policy Across the Curriculum and
Oral Language Across the Curriculum.
 WHAT LANGUAGE POLICY
CAN DO?

Language policy influences the right to

use and maintain languages, affects
language status, and determines which
languages are nurtured.
 IMPORTANCE OF
LANGUAGE POLICY

Language policy has a

major impact on
language viability
and, ultimately, on
the rights of the
individual.
 It is critically important to
develop language policies
that ensure the access of
minority populations to
WHY DO WE NEED prestigious forms of
LANGUAGE national standard languages
POLICIES? and literacies while
supporting the
intergenerational retention
of minority languages, both
indigenous and immigrant
languages.
 WHAT FACTORS AFFECT LANGUAGE
POLICY ?

The sociolinguistic situation.

The national ideology.

The existence of English as a world

language.

And notions of language rights.

 SOCIOLINGUISTIC

is the descriptive study of the effect of any

and all aspects of society, including cultural
norms, expectations, and context, on the way
language, is used, and society's effect on
language.
Nationalism holds that
each nation should
govern itself, free from
outside interference
(self-determination), THE
that a nation is a NATIONAL
natural and ideal basis
for a polity, and that IDEOLOGY
the nation is the only
rightful source of
political power.
 THE EXISTENCE OF
ENGLISH AS A WORLD
LANGUAGE
English is the most widely spoken
language in very different contexts
in the world.

The global language can be spoken

as either a first, second, or foreign
language.
The right of individuals to
use their first language at
home and in public, freedom NOTIONS OF
of assembly and
organization, the right to
LANGUAGE
establish private cultural, RIGHTS.
economic and social
institutions wherein the first
language may be used, and
the right to foster one's first
language in private schools.
CONCLUSION

Overall, we can say the language policies’

goal is to sustain, reinforce, and expand our
local languages and to provide the
foundation skills for the acquisition of
English and other international languages.
SHORT QUIZ

(1 – 3) According to Spolsky language policy has three

“interrelated, but interdependent” components, what are those
three?
4 . It is similar to the more general political culture of the
participating authorities. What is it?

(5 – 7) What are the 3 language policy bodies?

(8 – 11) What are the 4 factors that affect language policy?

ANSWERS:
1.Language ideology 11. Notions of
language
2.Language practices
3.Language management
4.The culture of language policy
5.Workplace
6. Education
7. School administrators
8. Sociolinguistic
9. National ideology
10. Existence of the English language