‘chapter 8 ‘The Welsh speech community Viv Goward sg mei Emp oo coal Te tren)108 ‘ve West sree OUST he pres festonable whethet thi “The blanket sation of a ens the primar age “ton the bass of nd the southwest of Enh Tnoenced ta some extent by te speech ofthe futon of Welsh speakers is extremely uneven. The pares aren Dyed and Gwyn Chea in Sean apd he Gack pnined supp tom academics and Plies! pressure groups Ike Bowen {igsp) ft ened reas where over 80 per ceelanguage not nce ‘where ove 80 ‘ofthe population speak Welsh, no ying in ares whete nly to percent of people ate ‘ils speakers ably led tos consdersble weakening Tanguage ad the majority of speakers ae now elderly and mile aped (van 1978; Jones 198) “he lsimate fate of the Welsh those who wh 10 sup. ost per cea) ould speak Wet eI or had Welsh language has eon par presen century, the proces of langue St began some wo yes earier. The Act of Annexation Of 2 ‘icone 2 Wels Spatng Position Ces Figur 1891-198 (terse) pops Pea aese, though inurl areas rns which emerge for Welsh speakers from the 1981 ‘hth optimism and pessimism. On the one west speaharsare concentrated among the siy” On the offer hand, in Gwynedd, nj and nero i evidence of replacement and growth is rowth in the numberof Welsh” spcntes inthe anglceed south-east snd northeast and the od Rsdno, Vaio enone sone pt forward 1 explainly songs ofthe en an in -nigeation of speaker from ot ‘of Wales Next, the develepment of bingo ‘Coucatcn provision in thexe areas (se yeeion on edacaion snd age reproduction Below) as wo ihe noes of younger speakers. inal in the umbers of au aga writer hve attempted to explain the of decine for the Wel langue. Some pout Sposa ‘ipo poste the deesio Seopa Feta mre ert me Language, culture and communi aug iv . “The growing avareness tht Welsh sfihting for survival has produced 1 sense of urgency and » peat del of a Pree to reverse the pater of pd decline, The cl seeette whic ie following ia the woke of ths el Language Act 967 gies Welsh equal te Wels in a our ‘Slonges fed many language campagne heere andi partie ‘sr fusion nto otherwise fo Engh fnguage atthe Welsh language. The ‘Gnynier Eva a for primar schools and 8 hoot Rado Cyr has bee een the AEF wavebund ince lor? and he eh Weltlongwsge broadcast fe aout Go hous a wesk (Bs nd Jones 198)anc on radio and television, the importance of rly of paramo peace would ao vem tobe ‘Baker (198), for lastance, pans ‘be ound in ward he many (fal asp bok Cou ‘aout bursaries and prizes fr authors. Equally po ‘Wash Fin Education Committe through i Books for Sehols Aeme (eee secon on education usrances suficent EDUCATION AN LANGUAGE RRRODLCTON s ‘Urdd Gobsith Cymra (The Welsh Legue of Youth) alo { food which fsopored by children tom omaunity and augue ‘ter oxgancztions aimed iy and bh has rea Merced y Wow, group sniar tothe Won nese entirely Wels Cyndatas Ye blngualsangonts Ghmdauinas Tar Grynedd (Socety fo [sup which focuses onthe ace to ens ‘ode availble to losl poop and not second home buyers, and Madiad Aadfer (Recovery movemeat which ams 10 develop thal emy houses are Sowtn Svr f Wel ‘ena Education and language reproduction ‘The role of Welsh in education has ha along and chequeredotriou 18 Report of the Commisiones, towards si Krowiedge (PCK) ium scoot where Welsh ‘thc tae int enstence the rmeten “The Code for Wales ited by the Weld Department et toy eave some prdeig 0 ut. The "however ng 2 fren ward, Wels se of Wale andthe mal codecs ya (The New pies by bo ognized Yor the Best time the ne al tong should be ot soo! an tors atthe in However he rat school 1 iowards the use of Welsh in the circu schools andi stark contest vo those ‘le Books) f rape ol seven t hich po poly 264 edn of mor progesr and. commercial prospec “fusevbes ihe people fom intercourse which would tion and bars the ess Of Ipsos mind (Guoted i Evans 1978 ue Books was forse fe segue not onl iy ase wherever posible as 2 medium of tld was part of (ey eo chofthe National Cursculum. With more postive offal backing gual English intake of Welt Schools i he development of Mi ih some Sana chitsem inthe Welsh hearand an angiced > 85). The jgotion mel ‘ihe waelyccnowiegged achuevements of Primacy schools have led education thm (Edwards 1984) 8 fein cles where Wee ‘ns cer of firt- and second-language puple where some of a] gies a] 7 BEL a $1888) sie Bade 7 a] EleGb] gee= a[8d8| aor fl dl acu : 2| 2 a) 8] ee ; 3] ¥ a) g| geaa | le fa 9 é :10 es es Se COMMUNI a les ere Welsh ot sed as 9 eaching medium. The station in noe 38 subjects evel and $63 ens for 30 sobjecs at Aleve (Welsh te voce (Lting Ws) wore pub thea of hbing tech 0 of secondary ion ae pe ange (Thomas 1989) naive speaker mode sucation have by no means beer schcned witout a stupa. There hae somtine been marked ian between thos parent seeking Wel and thse who ponstity which bs teachers forthe reproa Tanguage Ee Weis Otce in 1987 iy those responile ana to co-ordinate is spa fret of Welt at Ti or pry ‘Wehner el nas cnaion da, iy Meh ry, French, geography, teoogy, muse mation. There fa ben some ation Fo mm Unversity has been ested on iy woul be deprived of much proses to evalu development ia1 teams of experts ce ‘which ae then producing materi or programmes choo ad has need projec anguage rea scheme) 3 85, for a fev of these po} ‘een complemented more recenly by teache-baed develop an personal needs. Sh ecuring provi the supply of appoprate eae ‘sind textbooks. ‘T small eget population had ‘Dreromt this prble by guerantecing purchase of 2 sample ‘Spy for each Soo! of every generat reader approved Oy pune of teachers, langoge advisers, college Ie sm he Scho A rer cn 196) to advise of testooks forsehoot where Wels sa medium Ow ‘Wet otines oben extreme popu Resaech effort seproducton ‘have Wie ack, f subject for adults tn rerenences as been no shortage of dscusio f the heath of the the prover, Resch sh Yo eat), the eer ihe the of Wath. Cleve, Avon: Muti 1. and Fore, (988) "Bronstein Seley tne amen Pest Cos te rocco of the tsi of fans fhe West i 40): 2. “oe the Wei 2 en of he Coe carps. Esiboroy of Lmwge 66 8598.