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http://dx.doi.org/10.17703/JCCT.2020.6.1.321

Mutilingualism and Language Education Policy  

Kim, Yangsoon (Dept. English Language and Literature, Hanbat National University)
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The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology / v.6, no.1, 2020 , pp. 321-326 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper is to analyze the language education policy in the context of multilingualism. As the majority of the population are multilingual, language policy should be centered on the multilingual speakers as the norm, and multilingual language policy is the best route which we can follow as a language policy in education. The motivation and legitimacy of the multilingual policies are suggested in terms of 6 different perspectives: identity, sustainability, equity, World Englishes, machine translation, and Universal Grammar (UG). As a model of language policy, the English-Plus (i.e., English+n) policy and similarly the Korean-Plus (i.e., Korean+n) policy are suggested to be the most appropriate language policies in the field of education in America and Korea respectively. These plus policies aim at bilingual fluency in both the native language and other foreign languages that are constitutive of the multilingualism of the country in which the bilingualism is treated as a variant of multilingualism. In a period of convergence and diversity in the 4th Industrial Revolution, language diversity and multilingual policy should be considered as a right to be protected or as a resource to be conserved rather than as a problem to be solved.
Keywords
Multilingualism; Language Education Policy; Sustainability; World Englishes; Machine Translation; Equity;
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