ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the significance of developing language attitudes as an independent academic discourse. Developing language attitudes as an academic discourse is one of the best remedial measures for the issues have identified and this discourse can be strengthened by adopting specific mechanisms. These include discourse are building confidence at every level of education, promoting localized education in values, promoting formal and informal discussion of language attitudes, political movement, needs building and building bridges between languages. A study of language attitudes should pave the way for discussions on the definition of language attitudes and their nature on the existing language attitudes in diverse societies towards different languages. Language attitude analysis in the context of other languages will be more challenging in a multilingual society than in a monolingual or even bilingual situation. A limited understanding of the complexities and dynamics of language attitudes in bi- or multilingual societies can result in a major setback in the way languages are taught.