Petrus, Ismail LANGUAGE PLANNING: ENGLISH LANGUAGE STATUS AND ACQUISITION IN INDONESIA. In: The 1st Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (SULE-IC) 2014, 16-18 May 2014, Palembang.
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Abstract
Language planning is the deliberate shaping of a language or its spheres of usage to achieve particular ends (Tonkin, 2003, p. 14). Language planning may also be defined as a government authorized, long term sustained and conscious effort to alter a language itself or to change a language?s functions in a society for the purpose of solving communication problems (Weinstein, 1980, p. 55). Language planning has three foci: status planning, acquisition planning, and corpus planning. Status planning refers to the allocation of languages or language varieties to given functions, e.g. medium of instruction, official language, vehicle of mass communication (Cooper, 1989, p. 32). Acquisition planning refers to the efforts to influence the allocation of users or the distribution of languages/literacies by means of creating or improving opportunity or incentive to learn them or both; and corpus planning refers to the efforts related to the adequacy of the form or structure of languages/literacies (Hornberger, 2006, p. 28). This paper depicts the status and acquisition planning of the English language in Indonesia; besides, the paper presents some Indonesian government?s policies concerning the status and acquisition planning of the language. Regarding the status planning, English is the primary foreign language in Indonesia with several functions, such as a language for global communication and a source to develop the Indonesian language. Regarding the acquisition planning, English is a compulsory subject in secondary and tertiary education; however, there are still some problems at the implementation level as most of the graduates have an unsatisfactory level of English proficiency. Keywords: status planning, acquisition planning, EFL, compulsory subject
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) > L7-991 Education (General) |
| Divisions: | 06-Faculty of Education and Educational Science > 88201-Indonesian Culture and Linguistics Education (S1) |
| Depositing User: | Dr, M.A. Hartono Hartono |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2019 06:36 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2024 02:04 |
| URI: | http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/13730 |
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