Timor-Leste: sustaining and maintaining the national languages in education
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Article Title | Timor-Leste: sustaining and maintaining the national languages in education |
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ERA Journal ID | 22151 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Taylor-Leech, Kerry |
Journal Title | Current Issues in Language Planning |
Journal Citation | 12 (2), pp. 289-308 |
Number of Pages | 20 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1466-4208 |
1747-7506 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2011.589108 |
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 |
Keywords | Timor-Leste; national languages; mother tongue-based multilingual education; language-in-education; language policy and planning; language planning from below; Tetum |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development |
470401. Applied linguistics and educational linguistics | |
440105. Linguistic anthropology | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0w1y/timor-leste-sustaining-and-maintaining-the-national-languages-in-education
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