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The language situation in Timor-Leste

Kerry Taylor-Leech Division of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1-68 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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Tahmina Rashid. (2020) Adult literacy/recurrent education programmes in Timor-Leste. Studies in the Education of Adults 52:2, pages 134-156.
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Sjaak Kroon & Jeanne Kurvers. (2020) Language use, language attitudes and identity in the East Timorese diaspora in the Netherlands. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 41:5, pages 444-456.
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John Hajek & Francesco Goglia. (2020) The East Timorese in Australia: multilingual repertoires, language attitudes, practices and identity in the diaspora. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 41:3, pages 264-281.
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Ildegrada da Costa Cabral. (2019) ‘As línguas têm de estar no seu devido lugar’ (‘languages have to be in their proper place’): language ideologies, languagised worlds of schooling and multilingual classroom practices in Timor-Leste. Current Issues in Language Planning 20:1, pages 33-49.
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Ildegrada da Costa Cabral. (2018) From Dili to Dungannon: an ethnographic study of two multilingual migrant families from Timor-Leste. International Journal of Multilingualism 15:3, pages 276-290.
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Bernard Spolsky. (2018) Language policy in Portuguese colonies and successor states. Current Issues in Language Planning 19:1, pages 62-97.
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Hywel Coleman. (2017) Milestones in language planning and development aid. Current Issues in Language Planning 18:4, pages 442-468.
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Ritesh Shah & Marie Quinn. (2016) Mind the gap: global quality norms, national policy interpretations and local praxis in Timor-Leste. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 46:3, pages 394-413.
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Danielle Boon & Jeanne Kurvers. (2015) Adult literacy education in Timor-Leste: multilayered multilingualism. International Journal of Multilingualism 12:2, pages 225-240.
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Danielle Boon. (2013) Multilingual classroom talk in adult literacy education in Timor-Leste: teachers and learners doing literacy and numeracy tasks. Language and Education 27:4, pages 356-373.
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Marie Quinn. (2013) Talking to learn in Timorese classrooms. Language, Culture and Curriculum 26:2, pages 179-196.
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Kerry Taylor-Leech. (2013) Finding space for non-dominant languages in education: language policy and medium of instruction in Timor-Leste 2000–2012. Current Issues in Language Planning 14:1, pages 109-126.
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Kerry Jane Taylor-Leech. (2012) Language choice as an index of identity: linguistic landscape in Dili, Timor-Leste. International Journal of Multilingualism 9:1, pages 15-34.
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Kerry Taylor-Leech. (2011) Timor-Leste: sustaining and maintaining the national languages in education. Current Issues in Language Planning 12:2, pages 289-308.
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Danielle Boon. (2011) Adult literacy teaching and learning in multilingual Timor‐Leste. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 41:2, pages 261-276.
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Ildegrada da Costa Cabral. (2020) From discourses about language-in-education policy to language practices in the classroom—a linguistic ethnographic study of a multi-scalar nature in Timor-Leste. Language Policy 20:1, pages 27-52.
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Danielle Boon, Edegar da Conceição Savio, Sjaak Kroon & Jeanne Kurvers. (2020) Adult literacy classes in Timor-Leste and diverse language values and practices across the regions: implications for language policy-making. Language Policy 20:1, pages 99-123.
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