ABSTRACT
Opening scene: a language class in a Catholic high school in Dili, East Timor, video-taped in February 2008. About thirty girls and boys in their mid teens, dressed up in neatly ironed uniforms, sit in rows of aligned wooden desks. They look busy transcribing in their notebooks what an older man in his late sixties has patiently written on the blackboard (Figures 7.1 and 7.2).
