APPLIED SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Language Planning
or Language Policy

Origin

To get power

To stablish social status

To create identity

Language Planning

Made by those
empowered to do it

1. Normative invention

Colombian Government

2. Conflicting interest

Ethic, culture, ideologíes, etc

3. Realms of knowledge

Poer and action

Education

Is the perfect instrument
to apply or implement
language planning.

Language Policy

Combination of official
decisions and preveiling
public practicesrelated to
the language education
and use.

MEN in Colombia
tells how and what
to teach

Law 115, 1994

Law 1651, 2013

Decret 804, 1993

Plan Nacional de Bilinguismo

CEFRL

The country or social
group that wishes to
encourage other people
to learn their language.

Colombian Government
to indigenous groups
with Spanish language.

Language Education Policy

1. Activities

Status

Oficial Languages

Acquisition

Language teaching policies

Corpus

New or modifying a language

2. Approaches

Policy planning

The form of the language

Cultivation Planning

Language function

3. Other Activities

Usage Planning

Opposition

Prestige planning

Daily or academic language

Discourse planning

Through education

Status Planning

The status decision
determines which
languages are to be
used.

Public functions

By Government

The legal system

The media

The Educational system

Linguists are consulted
but decisions are made
by the government.

It becomes an important
activity when a country
becomes independent.

The attempt to set up
normsor rules or two
or more languages
available.

Indigenous groups in
Colombia proclaimed
their freedom from
their dialects power
and language influence.

Makes a language official.

To teach, to use

Spanish in Colombia

Language Diffusion

Language
acquisition
planning

Language status where
some people need to
learn, but they do not
normally speak.

Attempting to standardize size
grammar and pronunciation
toward some norms discovered
or invented.

Lingua franca

Education System

By some official
appointed or self
proclaimed group.

Language used by teacher

Corpus Plaining

It involves devising
a new, or modifying
an existing writing
system.

Changes in speech codes

Vocabulary

Caro y Cuervo, RAE, Cambridge

Corpus planning

Changes in political belief

References:
Lo Bianco, J. (2013). Language policy and planing: overview. University of Melbourne, 5(2), 10–25. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301634189_Language_Policy_and_Planning_Overview

Ravindranath, M. (2015). Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Contact[I am grate]. Language & Linguistics Compass, 9(6), 243–255. https://doi-org.crai-ustadigital.usantotomas.edu.co/10.1111/lnc3.12137