LANGUAGE POLICY-WHAT IS

IT AND WHAT IT CAN DO?

Prepared by: Jessabel V. Delos Santos

 Content
1. Language policy
2. Model of language policy
 What is language?

 Is a system of communication used by a

particular country.
 One of the most important parts of any culture.
 What is policy?

 A prudent or expedient conduct or action.

 A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis
for making decisions, especially in politics,
economics, or business.
 What is 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.
 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 to power.
 According to Spolsky(2004), language policy refers to all
“language practices, beliefs, and management decisions of a
community or policy”.
 Model of language policy

Language Policy

Language Practice Language Beliefs Language Management

(Ecology) (Ideology) (Planning)
Language practice/Ecology
• This are the observable behaviors and choice of what people actually do which
include the choice of linguistic features and the language variety.

Language beliefs/ Ideology

• This are the values that assigned to the variety and features of language.

Language management/Planning
• This are the explicit and observable effort by someone or some group that has
claims to have authority over the participants on the domain to modify their
practices or beliefs.
 References
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https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/guagua-national-colleges/edu
cation/5-el-104-language-policy-what-is-it-and-what-it-can-do/22957
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https://www.studocu.com/ph/documented/gua-gua-national-colleges/
education/6-el-104-understanding-language-policy-in-education/2295
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