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Neutrality in Language Policy
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Wee, Lionel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
The unavoidability of language makes it critical that language policies appeal to some notion of language neutrality as part of their rationale, in order to assuage concerns that the policies might otherwise be unduly discriminatory. However, the idea of language neutrality is deeply ideological in nature, since it is not only an attempt to treat…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ethnic Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning