Timor-Leste: Sustaining and Maintaining the National Languages in Education

Autor/in	Taylor-Leech, Kerry
Titel	Timor-Leste: Sustaining and Maintaining the National Languages in Education
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 12 (2011) 2, S.289-308 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1466-4208
DOI	10.1080/14664208.2011.589108
Schlagwörter	Language Planning; Foreign Countries; Language of Instruction; Educational History; Social Change; Educational Policy; Role; Multilingualism; Portuguese; Indonesian; English (Second Language); Official Languages; Malayo Polynesian Languages; Educational Change; Timor-Leste + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachwechsel; Ausland; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sozialer Wandel; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Rollen; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Portugiesischunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Office language; Amtssprache; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This article presents an overview of language-in-education policy development between 1999 and 2010 in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. In the decade since independence language-in-education policy in this newly independent country has been dominated by debates about the medium of instruction. Over time, policy has shifted from an authoritarian stance that insisted on monolingual, submersion schooling in a former colonial language to one that accepts the need to accommodate linguistic diversity in order to promote social inclusion. Recent policy documents allow for instruction in the vernacular languages, designated in the 2002 Constitution as national languages. The article identifies some key drivers that have provided impetus for this change in orientation, a change which offers opportunities for localised language planning from below. The paper therefore suggests that the acceptance of agency at both macro- and micro-levels will play a critical role in sustaining and maintaining the national languages in East Timorese education. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10