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  • Interethnic Understanding and the Teaching of Local Languages in Sri Lanka

    Author(s)
    Liyanage, Indika
    Canagarajah, Suresh
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Liyanage, Indika J.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    In precolonial times, equal socioeducational recognition accorded to local languages played a key role in promoting inter-ethnic harmony, co-existence and 'connectedness' between linguistically and ethnically diverse people of Sri Lanka. This history should motivate policy considerations in post- colonial situations in the country. This chapter has its focus on educational issues surrounding the promotion of local languages for interethnic harmony in Sri Lanka, where the promotion of Sinhala among minority Tamils, and Tamil among the majority Sinhalese has been the subject of many current political, policy and popular ...
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    In precolonial times, equal socioeducational recognition accorded to local languages played a key role in promoting inter-ethnic harmony, co-existence and 'connectedness' between linguistically and ethnically diverse people of Sri Lanka. This history should motivate policy considerations in post- colonial situations in the country. This chapter has its focus on educational issues surrounding the promotion of local languages for interethnic harmony in Sri Lanka, where the promotion of Sinhala among minority Tamils, and Tamil among the majority Sinhalese has been the subject of many current political, policy and popular discourses. Proficiency in the local languages was encouraged actively through policies and practices during precolonial times. However, despite popular thinking that there is an acute need to promote Tamil, its manifestation as a classroom subject in school education curricula for the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils in post-war Sri Lanka has been lost in the public and policy discourses. Using archival records and opinions expressed in newspapers as data, this chapter explores these ambiguities in attitudes, policies and practices from precolonial times to the present day.
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    Book Title
    Minority Languages and Multilingual Education: Bridging the Local and the Global
    Publisher URI
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7317-2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7317-2_8
    Subject
    English as a Second Language
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/66246
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