• The study of language policy consists of three types of analysis: first, an analysis of language beliefs

or ideologies, which is what people think about language; second, the analysis of language practices,
which is what people do with language; and third, an analysis on efforts to modify or influence those
practices through any kind of language intervention, planning or management.

• A set of principles and measures defined to address language correctness in terms of discursive and
ethical appropriateness. The concept has expanded in recent years to include also institutional
resolutions defining the conditions under which foreign languages can play a definitive role in specific
academic matters, such as teaching (in bilingual or international courses), scientific debates or
academic presentations (including international doctoral theses). Complementary
foreign language training activities can also be part of specific language policies, either for lecturers
or students. In recent years, language policy plans have also begun to be developed for specific
faculties or schools, focusing on more concrete and manageable objectives and measures.

• Language policy (LP) is concerned with official efforts to affect the relative status and use of one or
more languages. LP is the primary mechanism for organizing, managing and
manipulating language behaviors as it consists of decisions made about languages and their uses in
society.

• The different initiatives taken by the universities with the purpose of enhancing the use of all
the languages present in the curricula of studies.

• A language policy can be defined as a set of regulations and practices that help bring about the
planned language change within a society or system.

• Rules and regulations governing the use of language or languages in a country.

• Through language planning, rules are made by a company or a government concerning

official language choice, ways of use of a language, spelling reforms, the addition of new
words, language issues, etc. in a company or a country.

• The different initiatives taken by the universities with the purpose of enhancing the use of all
the languages present in the curricula of studies.

• Language policy is associated with language regulation and refers to what governments, organizations
and institutions do to determine how languages are used.

• This refers to the decisions that are made to determine the preferred languages that should be used,
taught, etc.

• Refers to a set of rules, laws, and regulations for language use.

• A systematic plan and set of actionable legal or official guidelines of government established to
encourage or discourage language(s) used in communication within a state or country.

• A policy area which includes all kinds of regulations and components related to languages.