Introduction - language planning: where have we been? where might we be going?

Abstract

This paper provides a brief overview of the development and state of language policy and planning and examines some of the directions that language planners have been taking to engage with issues of importance to their discipline. The papers in this volume of RBLA are linked to the overview and the directions being taken by scholars in the field. KEYWORDS: language planning, language policy, history, future directions, theoretical frameworks, review.RESUMO: Este artigo apresenta um panorama do desenvolvimento e do estado da área de políticas e planejamento linguístico e examina algumas das direções que seus praticantes têm tomado para engajar-se com questões relevantespara sua disciplina. Os artigos deste volume daRBLA são vinculados com tal panorama e com as direções tomadas pelos pesquisadores da área. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: planejamento linguístico, políticas linguísticas, história, dirações futuras, quadros teóricos, revisão.

Doing Language Policy: A Micro-Interactional Study of Policy Practices in English as a Foreign Language Classes

“…However, here it is not possible, nor is it my ambition, to offer any kind of exhaustive presentation of the history of research on LP. Instead for more extensive reviews of LP, see for example, Baldauf (2012), Hornberger (2006), Hornberger and Johnson (2007), Jernudd and Nekvapil (2012), Ricento (2006a, 2006b), and Spolsky (2012.…”

From practice to theory: the contributions of Richard B. Baldauf Jr. to the field of language policy and planning

“…Fishman, 1974;Haarmann, 1990;Haugen, 1983). The 1983 meeting and the photo that records it, mark the fact that the theoretical foundations of LPP as a broad field of enquiry including language management (LM) were being laid in the 1980s (see Jernudd & Nekvapil, 2012;Jernudd & Neustupný, 1987), although the origins of LMT can be traced back to the 1970s (see Neustupný, 1974Neustupný, , 1978 and the modernising mission of LPP back to the aftermath of the Second World War (see Baldauf, 2012;Wright, 2004). For more recent students of LPP, its origins and links with LM are often overlooked, a point well made in Nekvapil's contribution to this issue (see also Nekvapil, 2011Nekvapil, , 2012.…”

“…In several publications, he surveyed the evolution of the field, identifying and defining the strands within it (see, e.g. Baldauf, 2005Baldauf, , 2012). Dick's and Bob's grounding in educational and applied linguistics made it inevitable that they would start from practice.…”

“…Dick's later publications would acknowledge that, with hindsight, the association of language planning with modernisation, democratisation and westernised notions of progress was simplistic and overoptimistic (see, e.g. Baldauf, 2012). Influenced by critical and postcolonial theory, the analysis of LPP began to take on a more politicised tone (see Ricento, 2000 for a synopsis of historical perspectives, and Ricento, 2006 for an overview of LPP research methods).…”

“…These directions included practices at the different levels of language planning; covert language planning, or the failure to make LPP explicit, that is, failing even to address certain language issues at all (in other words, neglecting policy entirely), as well as the identification of the key actors in LPP and the analysis of their roles; and the growing international trend towards the compulsory teaching of early foreign and second languages, especially the teaching of English and its use as a medium of instruction in contexts where it is a non-native or a second language (Baldauf, 2012).…”