Paradigm Shift on Language Planning and Policy in Great Britain in the 21st Century

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.249How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Language Planning and Policy (LPP); multilingualism; multiculturalism; phases of LPP; the layers of language planning

Abstract

This paper reviews the paradigm of Language Planning and Policy (LPP) which has shifted in Great Britain. The sources comes from 30 articles, one book chapter, and one paper presentation. The aim of this paper id to show how LPP has shifted in the Great Britain in the 21st century. LPP has changed into three phases with multiple layers process of LPP. They are structuralism (1950s-1960s); the critic sociolinguistics (1980s-1990s) and; a new modern world order, post-modernism, linguistic human rights (21st century). Beside there are three layers of language planning which is implemented in Great Britain. The finding from the research reports shows that the paradigm of LPP phase in the 21st century education has come to a new modern world order, post-modernism, linguistic human right which focus on multilingualism and multicultural. Beside the influence of LPP in education system is significant, it can be seen from the increasing numbers of language learning policy from the primary, secondary to the higher education level. The positive effect of the language planning and policy in Great Britain is the tolerance of the British language policy makers to change the monolingualism into the multiculturalism. The government leaves the colonialism which involve the English language on it, and becomes the global community in the 21st century. One of the reason of this shift is the soft power advantage in the 21st century will belong to the multilingual citizen and nation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Didi Sukyadi
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