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The Languages of the Valencian Educational System: The Results of Two Decades of Language Policy
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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: Spanish and Valenciano, an autochthonous variety of Catalan, alternate according to various curricular programmes as the main teaching languages as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
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: Spanish and Valenciano, an autochthonous variety of Catalan, alternate according to various curricular programmes as the main teaching languages. 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. Never...read more
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Fonaments de la identitat territorial amb especial atenció a la identitat nacional. El cas valencià: discursos polítics sobre la identitat valenciana entre els militants de base del Bloc, EUPV i PSPV-PSOE
TL;DR: A continuar el fenomeno de las identidades territoriales, es necesario efectuar un recorrido desde la raiz misma del concepto de identidad hasta the identidad especifica abordada, pasando by el conjunto de las identifyidades colectivas and el amplio grupo de las identities territoriales (locales, regionales, nacionales, etc.) as mentioned in this paper.
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Linguistic landscape as a reflection of the linguistic and ideological conflict in the Valencian Community
TL;DR: The authors analyzed 248 linguistic landscape items collected in two urban sites representing public and private institutions to uncover existing linguistic and ideological conflict in the Valencian Community and found that Spanish is the high prestige language.
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Identity, language, and ethnic relations in the Bilingual Autonomous Communities of Spain1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed 2446 undergraduates from five Bilingual Autonomous Communities (BAC) of Spain and found that individuals endorsing the Autonomous only (11%) and Spanish only (13%) identities were more likely to engage in problematic intergroup relations.
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Investigating current language policy in Alicante : a case study
TL;DR: The authors presented a qualitative and quantitative data collected during the administration of fieldwork questionnaires in 2014 in the towns of Sant Vicent del Raspeig and La Vila Joiosa.
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