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The Case of East Timor Education beyond Independence 2000-2008

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  • Yunita Reny Bani Bili

    (Lecturer of English Education Department – Universitas Nusa Cendana, Kupang, Indonesia)

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The strong motive of East Timor government to establish a national identity through education had brought serious issues. This writing primarily discusses about the drawbacks regarding to East Timor language policy in education sector during the period of 2000 – 2008. Spolsky’s framework was employed to analyze the sociolinguistics situation, working of national/ethnic/other identity within the community, minority language rights and English role as a global language. The study was done by thorough library research in the related fields. The results show that while community language practice was ignored, the top-down language policy put more emphasis on Portuguese as the national identity language, Tetun Dili and English as the global language. As a result, the teachers and students were disadvantaged due to the inability to speak Portuguese, Tetun Dili and English. Second, the strong socio-historical context and political affinity to Portugal and its language had given little role to local languages in Mother Tongue Based-Multilingual Education.

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  • Yunita Reny Bani Bili, 2020. "The Case of East Timor Education beyond Independence 2000-2008," International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 3(11), pages 188-193, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijllt0:v:3:y:2020:i:11:id:799
    DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.11.18
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