The Languages of the Valencian Educational System: The Results of Two Decades of Language Policy  

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Arroyo, Jose Luis Blas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 6 (2002), page 318 — 338.
Fulltext: Vol. 5, No. 6, 318 — 338.pdf (253.2KB)

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For some decades now, as a consequence of changes in the politics of Spain, the compulsory education system in the autonomous Spanish region known as the Comunidad Valenciana has offered a varied programme of bilingual education: Spanishand Valenciano, an autochthonous variety of Catalan,alternateaccording to various curricularprogrammes as the main teachinglanguages. This paper examines the objectives of each of these programmes, as well as data which serve to evaluate the results generated by the application of the said programmes, i.e. history, enrolment details, geographic distribution, infrastructure,teacher training, etc. All these variables coexist within a very specific sociolinguistic context, which is unlike that of other bilingual regions of Spain. The existence of two clearly differentiated linguistic regions, tied in with the progressive abandonment of Valenciano over the last few centuries, is reflected in the lack of uniformity in the state of bilingual education in this region. Nevertheless, even the strongest critics concede that there has been a qualitative advance away from a monolingualmodel to the present situation where the teachingof Valenciano and teaching in Valenciano have an undeniable presence.

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