ABSTRACT
Often defined as “deliberate efforts to influence the behavior of others with respect to the acquisition, structure, or functional allocation of their language codes”, language planning requires all of the expertise that applied linguists have developed throughout the history of the discipline. Some acknowledgment of the more overtly social aspect of policy and planning started to happen in the second phase, though not to the degree that would occur later, in the third phase. While the law makes room for the individual selection of languages, in practice, the default choice is English because, on the one hand, it is more difficult to find teachers of other modern languages, and, on the other, English is often connected with the kind of prestige students and parents will want to associate themselves with. Language planning, thus, has several angles to it: status planning, corpus planning, education planning, and prestige planning.
