Write a short paper about some form of language policy – looking at issues learned about in class that have had some impact on you or your ancestors, your language (learning/use) goals, and your current beliefs about issues around some language policy. (e.g., should English be the de facto lingua franca of international commerce?), etc. Connect your experience as a user of one or more language to concepts covered throughout this course. Think about how your experience as a speaker of a language (or languages) has been formed and about who or what has been part of this formation. You should contextualize your experiences in the larger social setting and explore how these experiences have shaped your own attitudes about language and language policy. To do this, apart from your academic research, I encourage you to interview family members and friends with whom you have grown up. Final version is due Sunday March 6th by 11:59pm via TurnItIn.
Requirements:
A thesis statement which may connect your personal language experiences to at least ONE topic as
it relates to policy that we have discussed in class.
Develop the body of the paper connecting it to your topic and thesis statement – develop your thesis
and how that relates to at least THREE concepts covered in class.
A well-integrated reference to at least THREE sources (These should include concepts from the
class readings, discussions, and lectures (do not cite lectures as they are not academic sources)).
Correct use of terms from class when appropriate (e.g., Speech Community, Classic language
planning, corpus planning, linguistic discrimination, Linguicide, mutual intelligibility, overt/covert
prestige, diglossia, etc…)
The paper should be clearly written, proofread, and no longer than 750 words.
Thesis statement:
The thesis statement is the point of your paper; it should summarize how your personal experience relates
to course concepts and or some kind of language policy. It should be clear, concise, and the body of your
paper should support and connect to it.
References & Use of Terms from Class:
The references should be to academic papers, material we read or watched in class, or other sources (not
Wikipedia or Google). If you want to use materials from the lectures please reference the primary source
from the actual reading. If the reference is a non-academic source, like a video about language attitudes or
a blog post, you should justify its use i.e.: “This quote is representative about attitudes towards language
policy in the Philippines”. You do not need to cite the terms we learned in class unless you are referencing
a particular reading.
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