Resumed by: Dasril (14178061)

Hasrat Sozanolo Harefa (14178020)

Soffia Molina Citra (14178075)
Class/Group: ING-C / III

LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE POLICY

IS LANGUAGE PLANNING APPLIED LINGUISTICS?
Every country has language planning and policy and they may be
different from one country to another. It is usually made by the
government of the country. The government regulates the the language
planning and policy use in that country. In the case of our country ,
Indonesia also has language planning and policy. It is regulated in
Indonesia nationa education system law number 20 year 2003. Before
that, Indonesia has declared it. It is found in one of the three StatementYouth Pledge in 1928. It said that Indonesian as the national language.
Language Policy VS Government Policy
Language policy and government policy are two different terms.
Language policy is a policy about the language. It is not made only by
government but also other language decision makers, such as language
guardians and reformers, language planning experts, language right
activists, protectors of endangered languag, missionary linguists, and
language policy scholars. While goernment policy is a policy regulated by
the government of a certain country.
In a case of family who speak Indonesian instead of local language,
for example Minangnese family, the parents choose Indonesian as the
primary language spoken with their children. the children can speak
Indonesia fluently, but not for Minang language. Is it wrong to ban local
language in the house by parents, while we know that local languages are
also protected by the government? It may be wrong and right. Hall and
friends stated in their book that everyone is language decision maker.
Everyone has right to decide what language will be used to interact with
other people in a community, including parents and their children at
home. That is the language policy implemented in house. This kind of
policy is unwriten and unstated. It is well-known as implicit language
policy. Eventhough people are free to use language they choose, but they
must remember of the government policy about protecting local language
as core element of culture. because the policy of protecting local language
is writen and stated. It means that, we can decide any languages we use
to speak, but we also must protect our local language from endangered
status.