Análise comparativa dos dous últimos decretos de distribución de linguas no ensino galego

Abstract

Since the application of the law of linguistic normalisation most efforts to achieve the recuperation and the dignification of Galician language were addressed to education, because it was considered one of the main fields of involvement. However, the language treatment in the classrooms was frequently described as minimum or of low intensity until the arrival of the coalition government of the Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia and the Bloque Nacionalista Galego, which applied the Decreto 124/2007, do 28 de xuño, polo que se regula o uso e a promoción do galego no sistema educativo [2007/124 Decree, June 28, regulating the use and promotion of Galician in the education system]. This text represents the biggest advancement made for the normalisation of Galician language in the classroom, by prioritising its use in order to counteract the privileged (and dominant) social uses of Spanish in the other social areas.

Nevertheless, when the Partido Popular de Galicia won the autonomic elections in 2009, the decree 124 was eliminated and replaced by Decreto 79/2010, do 20 de maio, para o plurilingüismo no ensino non universitario de Galicia [2010/79 Decree, May 20, for plurilingualism in non-university education in Galicia], so that a positive treatment of the Galician language was removed and this new government made an equitativave language distribution (just under a quantitative point of view) at school. Taking all this as a starting point, in this research we carry out a theoretical analysis of both texts to show which bilingual models were applied with each decree, aiming to show that the linguistic policies developed by the Xunta de Galicia frequently seem to be more related to ideological interests than to a real commitment to the Galician language.