Hostility and Controversies upon Recommending the Teaching of a Standard Variety via a Colloquial Variety at Primary School Level

Mimouna Zitouni ()
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Mimouna Zitouni: University of Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran 2, Algeria

No 17, Proceedings of the 7th International RAIS Conference, February 19-20, 2018 from Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies

Abstract: In 2015, speculations have raised to debate recommendations suggested, among others, at the Algerian National Conference on the Evaluation and Implementation of School Reforms to recommend the teaching of Standard Arabic through Algerian Colloquial Arabic –Darija- at primary school level. Since independence, in 1962, Algeria has witnessed an Arabization policy whereby the Arabic language was imposed as the sole official and national language at political, economic and most importantly education level. The aim of this work is to shed the light on the pedagogical and socio-linguistic motives nourishing the possibility of implementing a vernacular variety– which has no morpho-syntactical and phonological representation - as a vehicle for knowledge transmission, literacy and education in the Algerian primary school level. Focus will also be put on highlighting emerging vectors of controversies and hostilities against the project that are deeply rooted in the historical, political and identity-based reality of the country.

Keywords: Speculations; Algerian Colloquial Arabic; The Darija; the Educational System; Algeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2018-03
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Published in Proceedings of the 7th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences, February 19-20, 2018, pages 229-235

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