<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-articleTitle"><h3>An exploration of the effects of language policy in education in a contemporary Puerto Rican society</h3></div>
<div id="gmail-authorString"><em>Mirta Maldonado-Valentín</em></div>
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<div>During the Spanish regimen, Puerto Rican education was limited
and restricted to Spanish language as the medium of instruction. It was
not until the U.S. colonization of the island that public education was
introduced. As a result, English replaced Spanish as medium of
instruction in the new educational system. Immediately after, Puerto
Rican elitists and politicians ignited a political movement against
using English (Algren de Gutierrez, 1987), resulting in a language
battle fought through a series of educational language policies. In the
end, policymakers enacted a language policy that reinstated Spanish as
the official language of Puerto Rico’s education system. Consequently,
policymakers also strengthened the use of Spanish instruction in Puerto
Rican schools and universities while English was taught as a subject
through all grade levels (Canino, 1981). Thus, this policy secured the
island’s status as a “monolingual Spanish speaking society”. In
addition, the enactment of this language policy also legitimized English
as a <em>de jure</em> second official language, with the possibility of
recognizing Puerto Rico as a “bilingual speaking society”. This paper
discusses the impact of these language policies on the use of Spanish
and English in education and presents a case study of Guaynabo City to
exemplify the effects of these language policies on a contemporary
Puerto Rican society and its acceptance of or resistance to becoming an
English-speaking society.</div>
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<div>language ideologies; language education policy; English as a second language; Spanish-English medium of instruction</div>
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DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2453" id="gmail-pub-id::doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.2453</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a target="_blank" href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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