scholarly journals Reviewing the Maintenance of Acehnese Language from the Language Policy and Planning Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Refanja Rahmatillah ◽  
Veni Nella Syahputri ◽  
Endah Anisa Rahma ◽  
Rizki Fajrita
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Policy And Planning

For over the last decade, the number of Acehnese speakers has continuously declined. The obstruction of Acehnese transfer from one generation to the next generation is believed to contribute to this condition. This paper addresses the role of language policy and planning to overcome the mentioned problem. The situation of Acehnese use and the studies related to this topic are reviewed to conclude the suggestions for the improvement of Acehnese language policy and planning. The results of the review indicate that the Acehnese language policy and planning is not well prepared, specifically related to corpus planning which affects Acehnese teaching in school. In addition, the local government does not optimally support the efforts of using Acehnese in public.

scholarly journals Microplanning and Language Policy in Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Aziz MOUMMOU
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Newly Independent States

Language policy and planning (LPP) has undergone an epistemological turn. Early LPP works approached linguistic diversity as a problem; especially for the newly independent states, but in today’s globalized world, multilingualism is the norm. A major issue that characterizes contemporary LPP in Morocco and needs further investigation is the interaction between macro-policies and local practices. Most top down language policies face resistance from speech communities. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the role of micro-planning and local agents in implementing a workable language policy. The aim is to reduce the gap between LPP research and local practices by using an ethnographic approach. Ruiz orientational model and Spolsky’s management theory provide a rich theoretical framework. Micro-planning can translate central policies into local practices.

Community Languages in Late Modernity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Policy And Planning

This chapter aims to reconceptualise the notions of community and community languages in late modernity and to recontextualise the discussion of language policy and planning (LPP) with reference to diaspora. The chapter consists of six sections: (1) a critique of the notion of community in late modernity; (2) an analysis of the renewed interest in the notion of diaspora; (3) an examination of the role of language and multilingualism; (4) a discussion of the possibilities and constraints of language policies and planning with regard to mobile and minority communities; (5) consideration of the importance of grassroots language planning actions, especially those that are carried out beyond institutionalised settings; (6) a discussion of the new challenges facing community languages in late modernity, highlighting the dilemmas of post-multilingualism and suggesting translanguaging as a possible solution.

A sociocultural framework for language policy and planning

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Cross
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Sociocultural Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Policy And Planning

Since the early 1990s, language policy and planning (LPP) has undergone significant theoretical shifts in how it understands policy, concurrent with corresponding shifts in understandings of language, and particularly language use, more broadly. This paper draws on recent developments within linguistics that understand language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory, and the role of language and other sociocultural artefacts in the mediation of human activity and social practice. The purpose of this discussion is to consider the potential of sociocultural theory as the basis for a broader meta-theoretical framework to understand the interrelationship between macro and micro analyses of policy and practice within LPP. The paper concludes with a consideration of the issues this raises for methodology in the study of LPP, as well as the implications for the practice of LPP itself.

Globalization, Language Policy, and the Role of English

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Ricento
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Socioeconomic Mobility ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Linguistic Imperialism ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy And Planning

This chapter explores some of the ways that apparently incompatible claims from the language policy and planning (LPP) literature can be disambiguated and resolved by reference to political economy. In particular, it focuses on competing views regarding the role of English in the world today as either a form of linguistic imperialism or a vehicle for social and economic mobility. In analyzing the nature and effects of neoliberalism, as expressed in its globalized economic and political forms, it shows that the role and utility of English worldwide is a vehicle for mobility for some people, in some economic sectors, mainly the knowledge economy, but is generally not connected to socioeconomic mobility for the vast majority of the global workforce. The discussion of neoliberal globalization and the role of English addresses the following questions: Where does power reside? Who has agency? Who decides which language has value? Who has rights?

Language Policy and Planning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Pérez-Milans ◽  
James W. Tollefson
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Policy And Planning

The closing chapter explores the consequences that the processes of change taking place under the conditions of late modernity may have for language policy and planning (LPP) research. In particular, it addresses seven key strands of discussion that emerge from the chapters in this Handbook, and which the editors believe will be important in the future of the field, namely (1) the continued importance of critical approaches; (2) the paradox of agency; (3) the need for ethnographic approaches to move from recognition of their value to further engagement with epistemological awareness; (4) the challenge of creating new links between LPP and alternative philosophical traditions, beyond European political theory; (5) the increasing role of media in LPP; (6) the need for expanding collaborations and revisiting long-standing assumptions about community-based research, language rights, and activism; and (7) the imperative of addressing ethical issues in contemporary LPP research through researchers’ reflexivity.

Language policy and language planning in mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar and Lisu

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
National Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractMost nations in mainland Southeast Asia and elsewhere have one national language as a focus of national identity and unity, supported by a language policy which promotes and develops this language. Indigenous and immigrant minority groups within each nation may be marginalized; their languages may become endangered. Some of the official national language policies and ethnic policies of mainland Southeast Asian nations aim to support both a national language and indigenous minority languages, but usually the real policy is less positive. It is possible to use sociolinguistic and educational strategies to maintain the linguistic heritage and diversity of a nation, develop bilingual skills among minority groups, and integrate minorities successfully into the nations where they live, but this requires commitment and effort from the minorities themselves and from government and other authorities. The main focus of this paper is two case studies: one of language policy and planning in Myanmar, whose language policy and planning has rarely been discussed before. The other is on the Lisu, a minority group in Myanmar and surrounding countries, who have been relatively successful in maintaining their language.

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