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November 2020
LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE POLICY:
ENGLISH - MEDIUM EDUCATION
Gulchehra Rahmanova
a senior teacher in Andijan state university,
Department of English Language and Literature, Uzbekistan
Address: Yangi Hayyot Street, house №56, Oq – Yor QFY, Andijan region, Uzbekistan
E-mail: xperia-ion@mail.ru
Keywords: language policy English-medium instruction, teacher perceptions, EMI implementation,
multilingual.
Abstract: The present article discusses the issues related to language planning and policy, English –
medium instruction in particular. The author tries to give general overview of EMI, its benefits and
challenges.
Introduction
Education is the gateway to social and economic rewards for individual students and for the
social groups they were born into and represent. There is a very substantial (and rapidly increasing)
disparity in income between those who graduate from university and those who have obtained only a
basic secondary school qualification.
Questions regarding whether a first or a second/foreign language should be used as a medium
of instruction (MOI) in schools have been enthusiastically debated in recent years in the countries
where English is taught as a second or foreign language.
Language policing and planning (LPP)
Language policing and planning (LPP) is one of the fastest growing sub disciplines of applied
linguistics. The LPP field was formed in the early 1960s by language scholars interested in solving
the language problems of new, developing and post-colonial nations.
Hult and Johnson suggest that LPP researchers are concerned with the creation, interpretation
and appropriation of policy on language status, corpus or acquisition in particular contexts—we seek
to understand, illuminate and influence policy-shaped texts, discourses and practice.
Moreover, LPP researchers often take up the “what” of language policy as it plays out in
education, focusing on policy and planning around language teaching and learning or language in
learning and teaching (Hult F.
et al., 2015) This, in turn, constitutes the fields which could be
investigated, for example, policies on language learning and instructional practices in classrooms at
elementary, secondary or tertiary levels; on language acquisition and use in classroom interaction; or
on method of assessing what a language learner knows and can do.
The main challenge to the language policy is the problem of its implementation. According to
Currie (1996, pp. 37.3-37.4), the actual content of the official language policy is decided by particular
regulation of language use in communications between the state and the subjects. However, there is
a continuing use of English at the national level. Even if other languages are promoted to be used at
this level, certain considerations on usage, practicability, expense, and regional circumstances should
be made, as well as the balance of the needs and preferences of the population. The practicability
depends on the number of people who speak a particular language in a particular area.
Notwithstanding, there is a proceeding with utilization of English at the public level. Regardless of
whether different dialects are elevated to be utilized at this level, certain contemplations on utilization,
practicability, expense, and territorial conditions ought to be made, as well as the balance of the
requirements and inclinations of the population. The practicability relies upon the quantity of
individuals who communicate in a specific language in a specific territory (Currie, 1996).
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