Educational Policies and Language Maintenance in Multilingual Settings: Australia and The Philippines  

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Smolicz, J.J. ; Nical, I. ; Secombe, M.J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 3 no. 4 (2000), page 242 — 264.
Fulltext: Vol. 3, No. 4,242 — 264.pdf (256.21KB)

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In this paper, the educational policies and levels of languagemaintenance found in the linguistically diverse societies of Australia and The Philippines are compared. The respondents in this study were senior secondary school students and their parents selectedfrom three non-Tagalog-speaking communities in the Philippines (Cebuano, Ilocano andWaray) and fromthe Filipino immigrant community in Australia.Analysis of the data, collected through questionnaires and personal statements, indicated that usage and positive attitudes to regional languages for oral communication were comparatively high for all groups, suggesting their core value significance at the local level, but were minimal in relation to literaryactivities.While the Ilocano respondents favoured Filipino for reading and writing purposes, the Cebuano and Waray respondents preferred to read and write in English. In the Australian context exogamous marriages had a negative influence on the maintenance of both Filipino and other regional languages, but there was evidence of Filipino/Tagalog becoming more frequently spoken as a core identifying value of the Filipino-Australian community.

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