Abstract
Colonialism shapes the history of a country. The language policy of a former colonized country could be seen as a mirror to see the long history of colonialism. The colonizers have strong influence in establishing the education system and language instruction used at school. In this case, language as the important element in education system could be seen as manifestation of colonialism. The language instruction in the classroom is usually the official language of the country. Some former colonized countries proudly used English as academic language. On the other hand, there are other former colonized countries which use their indigenous language as the language instruction in the classroom. By comparing these two different language policies would also give different effects to their cultural and national identity. The aims of this paper are explaining the language policies, analyzing the effect of colonialism on education system, and describing the relation between language policy and nationalism.
Highlights
Colonialism inscribes the important phase in the world history
Colonialism is the result of the Second Industrial Revolution in European continent in 1870’s
Lingua franca is adapted from the dominated language in the colonization era
Summary
Colonialism inscribes the important phase in the world history. Colonialism is the result of the Second Industrial Revolution in European continent in 1870’s. It is the period of a revolutionary trend in the history of mankind. The Second Industrial Revolution is known as “the First Globalization”, people can get cheaper transportation and easier communication access to travel around the world after the new invention of technology. European countries and Great Britain started their imperial expansion in the early of twentieth century, some European colonial empires such as British empire, French empire, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish were born in the fifteen and sixteen centuries which led by the great industrial powers (Aybar, 2010)
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