Indicator history

According to the Contribution from Portugal to the Annnual Report of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (2009) almost all Portuguese Roma have Portuguese as their maternal language. Other ethnic minorities, nammelly those resulting from recent immigration, don't have access to teaching in their minority language. The Ministry of Education has developed a program for teaching Portuguese as a second language, with the sons of recent immigrants in mind, nammelly those that come from non-portuguese speaking countries. But the aim is to adapt these students to learning in Portuguese, and not to teach them in their mother tongue.

However, the guidelines document for the Portuguese as non-mother tongue in nacional curricula, delivered in 2005 and conceived under a programme for the integration of pupils which don't have Portuguese as mother tongue, includes a reference to support programmes for learning mother language and culture of origin outside the official school curricula.
 

Source

DGIDC, Português Língua Não Materna no currículo nacional, http://www.dgidc.min-edu.pt/outrosprojetos/index.php?s=directorio&pid=64&ppid=2http://www.dgidc.min-edu.pt/outrosprojetos/index.php?s=directorio&pid=64&ppid=2, Date of access: 27.02.2012.

Dias, B. Ralha, T. and Silva, E. (2009), Complementary Data Collection - Contribution from Portugal to the Annual Report of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, Vienna: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.