1. La oferta de lenguas extranjeras en escuelas secundarias argentinas: la presencia/ausencia del portugués.
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Rubio Scola, Virginia Irene and Isabel Pozzo, María
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LANGUAGE policy , *PORTUGUESE language , *LANGUAGE & languages , *LANGUAGE schools , *FOREIGN language education - Abstract
More than thirty years after the creation of Mercosur, it is interesting to study its impact on the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language in Argentine secondary education. With that in mind, we consider the glottopolitics approach and some other studies that have addressed the impact of Mercosur on Argentine linguistic legislation and on the Portuguese as a foreign language school textbooks. This article presents an analysis of curricular designs in contrast with official data about the offer of foreign languages in four districts of Argentina: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), Province of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Córdoba. The results indicate that Portuguese, being the only language that has its own legislation as a required subject in high school, is not only on the periphery of the school curriculum but also its implementation is irregular. The lack of implementation of Portuguese responds to liberal glottopolitical measures that maintain the hegemony of English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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