Language

Policy and
Planning
 Objectives:
 Students will be able to list some the
societal issues that arise when more
than language is widely spoken in the
country. They will learn about the role
of the governments in establishing
languages policies such as bilingual
education language immersion and
in protecting endangered languages.
Language is an asset and a primary
instrument of human communication.
It gives a sense or identity to an
individual as well as social group.
However, language can also
become a problem and a barrier to a
communication, which necessities
language planing
Language Planning

 All conscious efforts that aim at changing

the linguistics behavior of a speech
community.
Language planning occurs in most countries
by their relevant governments wherein they
have more than one langage within the
country
A deliberate language change
Organized activity in order to solve
language problems within the community(
McKay and Hornberger, 1996)
The proposal to express language ideologies
within the community ( Bakmand, 2000)
Four (4) Stages Of Language Planning

Selection
Codification
Implementation
Elaboration
SELECTION

Isthe term used to refer to the choice of a

language variety to fulfill certain functions in
a given society
Codification
The creation of linguistics standard or norm
for a selected linguistics code. It is divided up
into three stages
1. Graphization – developing a writing system
2. Gramaticalization – deciding on
rules/norms of grammar
3. Lexicalization – identifying the vocabulary
 Implementation (acceptance)
- promoting of the decisions made in
the stages of selection and codification
which can include marketing strategy,
production of books, pamphlets,
newspaper, and textbooks using the
new codified standard.
Elaboration
- refers to the terminology and stylistic
development of a codified language to
meet the communicative demands of
modern life and technology. Its main
area is the production and dissemination
of new terms.
2 major levels of language planning
Heinz kloss (1967-1969)

1. status planning
2. corpus planning