Kupang
Malay Creole: the case for its use in Bilingual Education
Dra. June Alsertski Jacob, MA
Tenured Lecturer of English Department FKIP UKAW
Abstract
This
paper discusses the use of Kupang Malay in West Timor, Indonesia in bilingual
education. Kupang Malay is a Malay-based creole spoken as a first language in
the provincial capital of Kupang and as a language of wider communication in
the region. Like many other creoles in general, and like many other Malay-based
creoles in eastern Indonesia
This
paper also investigates what advantages it would be if Kupang Malay is used in
education by stating several issues from the literature that provides useful
background for this paper. Survey on the use of Kupang Malay in schools has
showed that Kupang Malay has indeed played a good role in the realm of
education.
Key terms: bilingual education,
creole, students’ acquisition, locally developed materials, acrolect, mesolect,
basilect, local curriculum, curriculum development, post creole continuum, Kupang Malay, stigmatized language, literacy
Everyone must have his orientation to life, and
language provides the most natural means reacting to life. In the deepest
things of the heart, a man or a woman turns naturally to the mother tongue; and
in a child’s formative stages, his confidence in that tongue must never be
impaired.
(R.E.
Davies, 1954.) |
| Kupang Malay Speaking Area |
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