Fairclough’s Concepts of Language Policy and Language Planning: A Comparative Study between Malaysia and Cambodia

Article. — American Journal of Educational Research. — 2013. — Vol. 1 — No. 9. — pp. 375-379. DOI:10.12691/education-1-9-5This paper is a comparative study of two important journals which reflect the challenges faced by two developing countries: Malaysia and Cambodia. The objectives of this study are to investigate the problems, planning and challenges faced by both countries and also to justify the language policy and planning of both countries using Fairclough’s concepts in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The findings show that language policy and language planning in Malaysia and Cambodia are majorly influenced by the political development at both of the countries themselves. Obviously, the national language of Bahasa Malaysia and Khmer has experienced development and standardization surrounded with the influence of second language, that is English.