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