Language policies

In the article "Enacting and Transforming Local Language Policies" ((2011), Tardy calls for a change in language assumptions in America in order to promote a multilingual space for language production (mostly in the classroom and in written forms). According to her, "individual and community values are influenced by public, institutional, and programmatic discourses, as well as values related to individuals' numerous cultural, religious, and social affiliations" (2011: 650). For this reason, both educational institutions and media have a major role in fostering an ideology towards language. The fact that there is an "absence of explicit language management" in the US can be an obstacle when trying to promote open perspectives to multilingualism, as it can lead to the spread of the "myth of linguistic homogeneity" and the English Only Movement (2011: 652). However, this explicit absence of language management can be seen as a tolerant attitude to language. In many places there are offical guvernamental institutions to promote the use (even to prescribe the "correct use") of a particular language such as the Real Academia de la Lengua Española in Spain, The Goethe Institut in Germany or La Alliance Francaise in France.
College education, teachers at high school and other levels and media can be agents for the change Tardy is calling for. By working at the local level, we can resist dominant ideologies  the myth of linguistic homogeneity.