Language Policy in Practice: a Case Study in Graduate Classroom

The 7th International Seminar 2013 “Language Policy and Planning: What are the Issues?” Salatiga, November 20 – 21, 2013 ; p. 172 – 179Most language teachers expect their students to use English in their teaching learning activity. When a policy is made, there is always two sides phenomenon either it is a successful implementation or a failed one. This study tries to investigate the implementation of language policy in graduate classroom in their pre-sessional program. The study employs interview method for data collection involving three teachers at graduate program. It also engages the graduate students for an informal discussion on language policy in their classroom. The focus of this research is finding out what factors determine the success of failure of language policy implementation in the classroom. The findings of the study show that there are several factors influencing the success or failure of language policy implementation. Those are external and internal factors from both students and teachers. This study suggests that the role of both students and teachers are really important in implementing language policy in the classroom