The Case of Syrian Refugee Students IN Background Language planning is a common problem among multilingual societies Western countries claim that migrants will assimilate into their new society and they have to speak that new language in order to get into the society they live but Ferguson argues that the size of minority residential communities enables that many of their members will be able to live out their lives using only or predominantly the minority language and also by the tendency of migrants to maintain closer and more regular connections with their countries of origin Ferguson 2006 So language planning has to be done in multilingual countries in order to avoid adaptation problems and provide prosperity and unity in the country A great number of studies have been done concerning language planning Some of them achieved their goals on the other side some of these studies failed Gonzalez mentions failure of language planning in Philippines in his research He states that 120 mutually unintelligible Philippine languages in use the islands 99 of population speak Filipino and more than 50 know English