@article{Vacca_2011, place={Tartu, Estonia}, title={Australia and Catalonia: a comparative study on the protection of minority languages from a legal standpoint. Education in the mother tongue. Is the language a factor of integration or a barrier?}, volume={2}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2011.2.1.22}, DOI={10.12697/jeful.2011.2.1.22}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 221.881px; top: 289.82px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04757);">This article is a comparative study of the education </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 309.86px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03019);">system in minority languages between Catalonia and Australia </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 329.779px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.991837);">from a legal standpoint. Catalonia has a complex legislation: Na</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 349.819px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.972066);">tional Constitution, Statute of Autonomy, Regional Laws, a strong </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 369.859px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.974885);">legal framework, a language always alive as a political instrument</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 389.778px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.997179);">to get the power. Australia has not a legal framework in this area </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 409.819px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02916);">and has a confused planning system. In Europe, the Council of </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 429.859px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.964606);">Europe has been in charge of the protection of human rights.</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 449.778px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.951467);">Australia signed and ratified some International Conventions which </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 469.818px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00922);">are not a strong legal basis to claim an education system in abo</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 489.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.980939);">rigines’ languages. The Catalan Law on Linguistic Normalization</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 509.777px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04533);">n. 7 of 1983, replaced by the Law on Linguistic Policy n. 1 of</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 529.818px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03508);">1998, has, among the other purposes, also that to stimulate the </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 549.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00231);">use of Catalan as language of education in all levels of teaching.</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 569.777px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.992872);">The school has a fundamental importance for the transmission of </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 589.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01879);">the culture of minorities. If the educational systems didn’t have </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 609.857px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01705);">any regime of teaching in the mother tongue all policies are not </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 629.776px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.994807);">efficient.</span><span style="left: 224.281px; top: 669.857px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.936847);"><br></span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics}, author={Vacca, Alessia}, year={2011}, month={Dec.}, pages={335–346} }