Language Policy and Planning Quiz

What is the primary concern of Language Policy?

• Official efforts to affect the status and use of languages

• Influencing language attitudes

• Creating new languages

• Promoting language diversity

Which of the following is NOT a type of Language Planning?

• Status Planning

• Corpus Planning

• Cultural Planning

• Acquisition Planning

What does Language Diversity reflect?

• The use of a single language in society

• The coexistence of multiple languages in societies

• The decline of minority languages

• The promotion of a national language

What are Overt Language Policies?

• Policies that are not enforced

• Implicit and shaped by social practices

• Explicit and officially established

• Policies that promote only one language

What is the main goal of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines?

• To eliminate regional languages

• To use a child's first language as the medium of instruction

• To promote English as the only language of instruction

• To standardize all languages in the country

Developed to solve emergent problems related to multilingualism and practice policies to enhance the learning of specific languages

• Language Attitudes

• Language-in-education Policy

• Language History

• Language Syntax

What does Acquisition Planning aim to do?

• Increase the number of users of a language

• Create new language forms

• Promote a single language

• Standardize a language

Which of the following is a challenge of implementing MTB-MLE?

• Overabundance of trained teachers

• Lack of instructional materials in regional languages

• Excessive resources

• Uniformity in language use

What is the role of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWL)?

• To promote and develop the Filipino language and other Philippine languages

• To eliminate regional dialects

• To standardize all languages in the Philippines

• To enforce English as the national language

What does the 1987 Philippine Constitution state about the national language?

• It is English

• It is Filipino, which shall be developed and enriched

• It is Spanish

• It is a combination of all regional languages