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<DIV>Kerry Taylor-Leech (2011): Timor-Leste: Sustaining and maintaining the national languages in education, Current Issues in Language Planning, 12:2, 289-308 <BR>Abstract:<BR>This article presents an overview of language-in-education policy development between<BR>1999 and 2010 in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. In the decade since<BR>independence language-in-education policy in this newly independent country has<BR>been dominated by debates about the medium of instruction. Over time, policy has<BR>shifted from an authoritarian stance that insisted on monolingual, submersion<BR>schooling in a former colonial language to one that accepts the need to accommodate<BR>linguistic diversity in order to promote social inclusion. Recent policy documents<BR>allow for instruction in the vernacular languages, designated in the 2002 Constitution<BR>as national languages. The article identifies some key drivers that have provided<BR>impetus for this change in orientation, a change which offers opportunities for localised<BR>language planning from below. The paper therefore suggests that the acceptance of<BR>agency at both macro- and micro-levels will play a critical role in sustaining and<BR>maintaining the national languages in East Timorese education.</DIV>
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<DIV>Taylor-Leech, Kerry Jane (2011) 'Language choice as an index of identity: linguistic landscape in Dili, Timor-Leste', International Journal of Multilingualism, First published on: 14 June 2011 (iFirst) <BR>Abstract:<BR>This article aims to show how language choice indexes social and national identity<BR>in the linguistic landscape of Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste. The linguistic<BR>landscape is examined in the light of the country’s current language situation, its<BR>colonial legacies and its ongoing development challenges. In this study, the<BR>iconicity, indexicality and visual grammar of official and non-official public<BR>signage in a capital city of the global south is discussed and the use of language in a<BR>range of signs is further analysed using the notion of language on display. The<BR>implications for language policy are also explored, taking account of the wider<BR>processes of social, political and economic change at work in this new nation.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Associate Professor Michael Leach</DIV>
<DIV>Politics & Public Policy</DIV>
<DIV>Faculty of Life and Social Sciences</DIV>
<DIV>Swinburne University of Technology</DIV>
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