General Aspects

Terminology for language planners
University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
The text presents briefly aspects of terminology and the relation between language planning and non-discriminatory politics. There is an extensive list of bibliography references, very useful for researchers.
Link: http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/~ttrippel/terminology/node22.html

Linguistic Human Rights: A Sociolinguistic Introduction
By Prof. Peter. L Patrick, Dept. of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex
The paper presents a contrasting division between speech communities related with the conception of language rights: Standard language dominance of related dialects, Official language dominance of unrelated languages and Globalization, language death, linguistic imperialism. The author himself admits that the taxonomy probably needs critique and revision, however the ideas are very good for an introductive reflexion regarding the theme.
Link: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/lhr/lhrtypology.htm

CILP Abstracts
This website presents several abstracts of papers relating with the theme. There is also the contact with the authors; it could be useful for further researches.
Link: http://www.cilp.net/abs2001.html#lopes


Globalization and Education in the Postcolonial World: towards a conceptual framework
By Leon Tilkly, Comparative Education Volume 37 No. 2 2001, p. 151–171, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
The paper explores the relationship between globalization and education in low income as the case of the postcolonial countries and the question of education with special attention to the education systems of sub-Saharan. The author’s point of view firmly estates that education cannot succeed alone to support the resistance of other languages and an educational reform would to be only successful if articulates broader processes and struggles.
Link: http://education.eastwestcenter.org/education2020/pre-institute%20readings/Tikly.pdf

Balance of the Current Sociolinguistic Research: New Trends and New Paradigms
By Lachman Khubchandani, X Linguapax Congress, Linguistic Diversity, Sustainability and Peace, Barcelona, 19-23 May 2004
The text is a report of a workshop moderated by Mr. Khubchandani and it presents a discussion regarding globalization forces towards multilingual societies and the role of policy-making agencies. The debate covered several situations, from Israel, Canada, South Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea to multilingual settings in the European Union, as the issues of revitalizing Catalan, Irish, Latvian and other languages of regional and immigrant minorities (such as Corsican, Sicilian, Frisian, etc).
Link: http://www.linguapax.org/congres04/pdf/khubchandani.pdf

Planning Language, Planning Inequality
A review about the book “Planning Language, Planning Inequality”, by James Tollefson, 1991 New York: Longman. Pp. 234.
The review points up some main aspects that should be considered in the study of language planning and were analyzed by Tollefson. In the book there is a discussion regarding the paradox to the institutional constraints of language planning and its consequences to create an unbalance – cultural inequalities between minority and majority groups are maintained – through language policy unequal social structures are reinforced.
Link: http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej01/r.2.html

Language Policy and Planning
CAL Resource Guides Online
This website is very useful to study this topic, although the guide provides materials on general topics in language policy and language planning with a focus on North America. It gives the visitors several research fonts, like journals, books, bibliography, websites and other documents regarding the theme.
Link: http://www.cal.org/resources/faqs/rgos/policy.html


A Case Study of Language Planning in Jordan
Abstract: Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1985
The abstract of the Ph.D. Dissertation developed by Al-Haq is very short, but in there we can find some main ideas of the work, like the “desire and commitment of faculty members and students alike to proceed with Arabicization”, despite problems connected with the lack of technical terms in scientific fields. The speech varieties in use in Jordan are English, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic.

Link: http://ling.wisc.edu/abstracts/alhaq.htm

Asia

Philippines - Language Planning and Intellectualization
By Andrew Gonzalez, La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
The article describes the case of Philippines language planning and the importance of the concept of Intellectualisation in this process, because it is examined as process and product according to its inner (psychological) and outer (sociological) dimensions.
Link: http://www.cilp.net/abs2002.html

Malaysia: Language Policy And Planning In Higher Education In Malaysia: A Nation In Linguistic Transition
By Saran Kaur Gill, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
The article gives us a wide view of the theme “Language Planning” and explains the phenomenon not only in Asia, but also in other countries in Africa. The central focus is the Higher Education. The author points out some themes and factors and analyzes them through political, economic and legislative views. There are bibliography references too.
Link: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/proposal/SaranMalaysia.htm

India: A Review of H.R. Dua's Science Policy, Education, and Language Planning: “Science Policy: Empowering Indian Languages Vis-à-vis English”
By S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Ph. D. From the “Language in India – Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow”, Volume 3, 4 April 2003.
The text presents a critical review regarding the book “Science Policy, Education and Language Planning” written by H. R. Duas. Although is only a review, the text presents a good summary of the main ideas of the book and gives the reader a overview of the Indian processes of language planning and the related discussion about ideology – as the quotation from Tollefson (1991) regarding "invisible" ideology ", “… requiring everyone to learn a single dominant language (…) widely seen as a common-sense solution to the communication problems of multilingual societies".

Link: http://www.languageinindia.com/april2003/duabookreview.html

Africa

Language Planning and Language Policies in some selected West African Countries
Rakissouiligri Mathieu OUEDRAOGO, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The extensive paper of Ouedraogo examines the issue of African languages related with development. The author believes that African languages (spoken by the majority of the population) have an important role in development – in sector like health, agriculture, governance, trade, population control, environmental improvement and the elimination of poverty. This happens because those languages allow a full participation of the people and they can understand better and try to control the knowledge and skills required for development.
Link: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001228/122877eo.pdf

Linguistic Diversity and Language Planning in Modern Africa
By Matthew Johnson, Africa in International Politics, Professor Najim Animashaun
The author focuses in the political distribution of different languages in African states and analyses some practical cases, like Nigeria, which was divided into four regions for administrative purposes of the British colonization and like other regions, which have a lack of a written record and this situation led to the implementation of English as the operative language.
Link: http://72.14.209.104/search?=cache:LOE__eYUX8MJ:damnsw.net/~matt/pdf/africa.pdf+Language+planning+in+post-colonial+countries&hl=pt-BR&gl=br&ct=clnk&cd=12

Language as a Resource: an African Perspective
Prof Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan, Nigeria & University of Leipzig, Germany
The main issue of the text is that language is not only a communicative function but has also a social and political dimension, “I intend to show that the role of language in society and in nation-building cannot be narrowly limited to its communicative function”. He works with the concept of “language as a resource” – popularized in the "planning" model of language planning: from this point of view, a language is saw as a commodity and the police makers reflect about it in terms of strictly economic grounds. From this base, the author discusses the importance of having a broader dimension in the issue of language planning. There is a very good bibliography.
Link: http://www.up.ac.za/academic/libarts/crpl/1998-03-05-Bamgbose.pdf

The Contribution of PANSALB in the Promotion of the African Languages in South Africa
By Cynthia Marivate, Chief Executive Officer, Pan South African Language Board
The Pan South African Language Board was created through an Act in 1995 and has a role to promote and develop previously marginalised languages. The article explains the targets of the Board, providing for the creation of an enabling environment for the development of South African languages. Marivate makes a strong critic against the absent of governmental support and the conduction of multicultural policies in SA.
Link: http://www.up.ac.za/academic/libarts/crpl/1998-03-05-Marivate.pdf

Reflections on Language Policy in African Countries with Portuguese as an Official Language
By Mário Vilela, Porto University, Portugal
The paper makes a retrospective about the historical aspects, which contributes to establish Portuguese as the official language in African countries. He emphasizes that the process of establishment an official language must consider the multicultural nature of the continent. The author provides for an extensive list of bibliography about the theme.
Link: http://www.multilingual-matters.net/cilp/003/0306/cilp0030306.pdf

The English language and social inequality: Towards a re-evaluation of the role of English in Mauritius
Satish Kumar Mahadeo, Faculty of Social Studies & Humanities, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
The paper discusses the role of English language as an agent implicated in the social and economic mechanisms and its relation with structure inequality in Mauritius – English is regarded as a language of prestige. The author points up the difficulties of language planning decisions, which will be applicable for the whole population in a postcolonial and multilingual society.
Link: http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL/Articles/Mahadeo/Mahadeo2.html