Education does not consider that the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) has questioned its proposal for linguistic criteria. Sources from the regulatory institution stressed that this contains recommendations “that are separated from the Administration's own formal record” and that there are other proposals that, directly, “do not appear in the regulations.”
In fact, despite the quite critical tone of the report published by this newspaper, the Consell understands that the Academy does support its proposal for changes in the use of Valencian in the Administration.
Such is the conviction that the General Directorate of Educational Guidance and Language Policy has sent a letter to a multitude of organizations "with the desire that these criteria be shared by all public administrations, the media, publishers, associations, professional associations and union organizations.
Precisely, one of the critics of the text approved unanimously by the academics considered "inappropriate to want to extend the application of specific criteria developed by a General Directorate of Educational Planning and Linguistic Policy not only to the entire Valencian Generalitat but also to the rest of the Valencian administrations." ”. An usurpation of the functions of the AVL, an academic confessed to La Vanguardia these days.
And the text approved by the plenary session of the regulatory entity is full of reproaches to the proposal of the Department of Education. Although it admits that “the linguistic solutions adopted in the document follow the regulatory framework defined by the Valencian Academy of Language in its normative works, there are several proposals - referring to the use of orality as a formal language or certain grammatical aspects - that do not appear. in the institution's regulations so they are not considered to be unacceptable.
Furthermore, the AVL's letter makes clear its discomfort because in the entire proposal reissued by the Department headed by José Antonio Rovira "it eludes not only the explicitness of the Academy as a reference normative authority, but also the role of this institution in the consolidation of a formal Valencian model.”
However, the letter sent to the different institutions states, without going into details, that the AVL unanimously approved the report with the corresponding observations. Along these lines, linguistic technicians are asked to make their contributions before the Valencian government decrees its final approval. A process that, explained sources from the Department of Education, is the usual one in this type of procedures.
