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What is Language Policy Development

Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Language and Literacy Development
In order to distinguish the study of language policy and planning by academics from the its implementation and development in specific locales, we use the term language policy development to refer to an intentional action deployed by officials, ministers, organizations, community facets businesses, and families who express a desire to preserve learning and specific language use in predefined ways, for example, when these languages are not selected to be used for instruction in schools ( Ricento, 2013 ).
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Consolidating Commonalities in Language and Literacy to Inform Policy: Bridging Research Cultures in the Multilingual English-Speaking Caribbean
Patriann Smith (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Alex Kumi-Yeboah (University at Albany – State University of New York, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8668-7.ch016
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how literacy and language planning and policy (LPP) research may be consolidated to inform recommendations for local language policy development and pedagogical literacy instruction in the English-speaking Caribbean region. To achieve this goal, we first identify patterns in literacy research across countries and contexts in the English-speaking Caribbean region, noting assumptions underlying the literature. We then discuss the ways in which language use evolved in one of these English-speaking Caribbean countries, noting the impact of historical and global forces. In presenting St. Lucia as a critical case where Language Planning and Policy (LPP) research, and particularly, the ways in which the historical epochs in which this research has been undertaken influenced the evolution of language use in the country, we identify strategic, epistemological and macro sociopolitical insights emanating from our discussions of language use in this Majority World nation.
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