CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE

POLICY
DISCUSSANTS:

ANDRY P. SISON & APRIL ROSE MORANAS

(III BSED ENGLISH – B)

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Language Policy - According to Spolsky (2004)
language policy means all the languages
procedures, practices, beliefs and organizational
preferences of a society.

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Three Components of Language
Policy

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Language Policy and Planning

Language Policy
It basically deals with general principles
(absolute laws, rules, and regulations)

Language Planning
It is about how to achieve the goals
(achievement of goals)

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● Language Policy has four major types of planning:
corpus planning, status planning, acquisition
planning, and prestige planning.

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4 Major Types Of Language Planning
● Corpus Planning - Creates new
words,expressions or change the old one’s to
have a new meaning.

● Status Planning - Wants to change the way

how language is use

● Acquisition Planning - Sets requirements for

learning language, such as identifying a
curriculum to teach a country’s national
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4 Major Types Of Language Planning

● Prestige Planning - It is promoting the image of a

language to be accepted by users of a specific
language.

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Purpose Of Language Policy

● Language policy provides common understanding of

aims and objectives of language learning.

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 Goals Of Language Policy
● To sustain, reinforce and expand our local
languages and to provide the foundation skills
for acquisition of English and other
international languages.

● To allow children develop a sense of identity.

● To allow children to develop a literacy in

local and national languages.

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Language Policies Across The Asean
● ASEAN’s official working language is English

● Philippines - MTB MLE POLICY

● Singapore - Bilingual Policy

● Thailand - National Language Policy

● Malaysia - MBMMBI POLICY

● Vietnam - MTBBE POLICY 10

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Prepared By:
ANDRY P. SISON & APRIL ROSE MORANAS
III BSED ENGLISH B

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References:
Bernard Spolsky (2007) International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Language
Policyhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/229695499_Language_P
olicy#:~:text=According%20to%20Spolsky
%20(2004)%20language,organizational%20preferences%20of%20a
%20society

Elana Shohamy (2009) Language Policy According to Spolsky (2004)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Language-policy-according-to-Spols
ky-2004_fig1_262457892

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References:
Guagua National College (2022) 5 EL 104 – Language Policy, What
is it and What it can do
https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/guagua-national-colleges/
education/5-el-104-language-policy-what-is-it-and-what-it-can-do/2
2957900

MTB-MLE (2021) CONCEPT CLARIFICATION, LANGUAGE POLICY, OFFICIAL

AND NATIONAL LANGUAGES, LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
https://youtu.be/_pz2ml2Gt-E

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References:
Noremay Perez (2019) Summary Of Language Policies In Five Selected South East Asian
Countries
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Summary-of-Language-Policies-in-Five-Selected-So
utheast-Asian-Countries_fig1_346656573

Seran Dongançay-Aktuna LANGUAGE PLANNING

://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-4535-0_2

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