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Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe

Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
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Author : Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847143457

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In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part of the book, the two editors address central cultural, political and educational concerns relating to the mother tongue, using some of the findings of their European Commission funded research on the changing European classroom. The second part presents case study articles by practitioners from nine countries which have significant regional or immigrant mother tongue populations. These include Welsh in Wales, Catalan and Galician in Spain, Turkish and Greek in Germany, Arabic and Corsican in France, and Belorussian in Poland, as well as critical accounts of the main first language situation in England, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, post-Soviet Russia, and Spain. The concluding part of the book looks at language awareness as a possible approach to linguistic diversity. It examines the preparation of teachers at all levels, as experinced by the editors through their involvement in an in international language study group based in Calgary, Cambridge, Mainz and Bialystock.Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe is packed with original information which will be of use to all teachers and educationalists concerned with language.

Multilingual Europe

Guus Extra,Durk Gorter
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Author : Guus Extra,Durk Gorter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208351

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This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages. Although "celebrating linguistic diversity" is one of the key propositions in the European discourse on multilingualism and language policies, this device holds for these three types of languages in a decreasing order. All three types of languages, however, are constituent parts of a multilingual European identity and should be taken into account in any type of language policy. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education are addressed in case studies at the national and European level. The selection of case studies is based on a careful weighing of geographical spread of countries and languages across Europe on the one hand, and availability of established expert knowledge on the other. After an Introduction to the theme of the book (Guus Extra and Durk Gorter), Part I deals with official state languages with a focus on the spread of English as lingua franca across Europe (Juliane House), on French and France (Dennis Ager), on Polish in Poland and abroad (Justyna Lesniewśka), and on language constellations in the Baltic States (Gabrielle Hogan-Brun). Part II deals with regional minority languages with a focus on Catalan in Spain (Francesc Xavier Vila i Moreno), Frisian in the Netherlands (Durk Gorter et al.), Hungarian as a minority language in Central Europe (Susan Gal), and Saami in the Nordic countries (Mikael Svonni). Part III deals with immigrant minority languages in the United Kingdom (Viv Edwards), Sweden (Lilian Nygren-Junkin), Italy (Monica Barni and Carla Bagna) and Europe at large (Guus Extra and Kutlay Yağmur).

Multilingual Europe

Heather Merle Benbow,Jane Warren
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Author : Heather Merle Benbow,Jane Warren
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443811651

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Multilingual Europe by Heather Merle Benbow,Jane Warren Pdf

As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others.

Multilingual Europe, Multilingual Europeans

Anonim
Multilingual Europe Multilingual Europeans Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401208031

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Multilingualism is a crucial if often unrecognized marker of new European identities. In this collection of essays, we observe how a plurilinguist and pluricultural political entity practices and theorizes multilingualism. We ask which types of multilingualism are defined, encouraged or discouraged at the level of official policies, but also at the level of communities. We look at speakers of hegemonic or minority languages, at travellers and long-term migrants or their children, and analyse how their conversations are represented in official documents, visual art, cinema, literature and popular culture. The volume is divided into two parts that focus respectively on “Multilingual Europe” and “Multilingual Europeans.” The first series of chapters explore the extent to which multilingualism is treated as both a challenge and an asset by the European Union, examine which factors contribute to the proliferation of languages: globalisation, the enlargement of the European Union and EU language policies. The second part of the volume concentrates on the ways in which cultural productions represent the linguistic practices of Europeans in a way that emphasizes the impossibility to separate language from culture, nationality, but also class, ethnicity or gender. The chapters suggest that each form of plurilingualism needs to be carefully analysed rather than celebrated or condemned.

Language technologies for a multilingual Europe

Georg Rehm,Daniel Stein,Felix Sasaki,Andreas Witt
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Author : Georg Rehm,Daniel Stein,Felix Sasaki,Andreas Witt
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234739

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Language technologies for a multilingual Europe by Georg Rehm,Daniel Stein,Felix Sasaki,Andreas Witt Pdf

This volume of the series “Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing” includes most of the papers presented at the Workshop “Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe”, held at the University of Hamburg on September 27, 2011 in the framework of the conference GSCL 2011 with the topic “Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications”, along with several additional contributions. In addition to an overview article on Machine Translation and two contributions on the European initiatives META-NET and Multilingual Web, the volume includes six full research articles. Our intention with this workshop was to bring together various groups concerned with the umbrella topics of multilingualism and language technology, especially multilingual technologies. This encompassed, on the one hand, representatives from research and development in the field of language technologies, and, on the other hand, users from diverse areas such as, among others, industry, administration and funding agencies. The Workshop “Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe” was co-organised by the two GSCL working groups “Text Technology” and “Machine Translation” (http://gscl.info) as well as by META-NET (http://www.meta-net.eu).

META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020

Georg Rehm,Hans Uszkoreit
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Author : Georg Rehm,Hans Uszkoreit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642363498

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META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 by Georg Rehm,Hans Uszkoreit Pdf

In everyday communication, Europe’s citizens, business partners and politicians are inevitably confronted with language barriers. Language technology has the potential to overcome these barriers and to provide innovative interfaces to technologies and knowledge. This document presents a Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020. The agenda was prepared by META-NET, a European Network of Excellence. META-NET consists of 60 research centres in 34 countries, who cooperate with stakeholders from economy, government agencies, research organisations, non-governmental organisations, language communities and European universities. META-NET’s vision is high-quality language technology for all European languages. “The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.” — Dr. Pedro Passos Coelho (Prime-Minister of Portugal) “It is imperative that language technologies for Slovene are developed systematically if we want Slovene to flourish also in the future digital world.” — Dr. Danilo Türk (President of the Republic of Slovenia) “For such small languages like Latvian keeping up with the ever increasing pace of time and technological development is crucial. The only way to ensure future existence of our language is to provide its users with equal opportunities as the users of larger languages enjoy. Therefore being on the forefront of modern technologies is our opportunity.” — Valdis Dombrovskis (Prime Minister of Latvia) “Europe’s inherent multilingualism and our scientific expertise are the perfect prerequisites for significantly advancing the challenge that language technology poses. META-NET opens up new opportunities for the development of ubiquitous multilingual technologies.” — Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan (German Minister of Education and Research)

Multilingual Encounters in Europe's Institutional Spaces

Johann W. Unger,Michal Krzyzanowski,Ruth Wodak
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Author : Johann W. Unger,Michal Krzyzanowski,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441144843

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Multilingual Encounters in Europe's Institutional Spaces by Johann W. Unger,Michal Krzyzanowski,Ruth Wodak Pdf

Multilingual encounters have been commonplace in many types of institutions, and have become an essential part of supranational institutions such as the EU since their inception. This volume explores and discusses different ways of researching the discursive dimension of these encounters, and critically examines their relevance to policy, politics and society as a whole. This includes institutions at the local, regional and supranational level. Multilingualism in institutions is currently often seen as an obstacle rather than an opportunity, at least with respect to European public and private spheres. The volume asks: - exactly how is multilingualism conceptualized and talked about in different institutions? - how do different institutions 'deal' with multilingualism, both internally and externally? - what are the policy making rules and challenges for the future for various institutions with respect to multilingualism?

European Multilingualism

Rosita Rindler Schjerve,Eva Vetter
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Author : Rosita Rindler Schjerve,Eva Vetter
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847697349

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European Multilingualism by Rosita Rindler Schjerve,Eva Vetter Pdf

Expanding on the results of the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book pursues a multi-focal approach which elaborates on European Multilingualism as an ongoing process of shaping policy and generating scientific knowledge.

Language Technologies for a Multilingual Europe

Andreas Witt,Felix Sasaki,Daniel Stein
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Author : Andreas Witt,Felix Sasaki,Daniel Stein
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013291972

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Language Technologies for a Multilingual Europe by Andreas Witt,Felix Sasaki,Daniel Stein Pdf

This volume of the series "Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing" includes most of the papers presented at the Workshop "Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe", held at the University of Hamburg on September 27, 2011 in the framework of the conference GSCL 2011 with the topic "Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications", along with several additional contributions. In addition to an overview article on Machine Translation and two contributions on the European initiatives META-NET and Multilingual Web, the volume includes six full research articles. Our intention with this workshop was to bring together various groups concerned with the umbrella topics of multilingualism and language technology, especially multilingual technologies. This encompassed, on the one hand, representatives from research and development in the field of language technologies, and, on the other hand, users from diverse areas such as, among others, industry, administration and funding agencies. The Workshop "Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe" was co-organised by the two GSCL working groups "Text Technology" and "Machine Translation" (http: //gscl.info) as well as by META-NET (http: //www.meta-net.eu). This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

European Multilingualism

Rosita Rindler Schjerve,Eva Vetter
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Author : Rosita Rindler Schjerve,Eva Vetter
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847697370

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European Multilingualism by Rosita Rindler Schjerve,Eva Vetter Pdf

This book provides a broad sociolinguistic perspective on major questions of political and cultural Europeanization. It is concerned with European multilingualism as it actually results from the intersecting endeavour of policy making and scientific research. This volume argues that the EU must overcome the major discrepancies of its linguistic diversity politics by developing into a multiple inclusive society beyond the nation-state in order to seriously unfold European multilingualism as a political goal. Expanding on the theoretical and methodological approaches developed within the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book further focuses on the LINEE key variables of European multilingualism i.e. 'culture', 'discourse', 'identity', 'ideology', 'knowledge', 'LPP', 'multi-competence', and 'power & conflict'. Against this background, this study argues for reconceptualising European multilingualism on the basis of an integrative and multi-focal approach.

Multilingual Europe

Jane Warren,Heather Merle Benbow
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Author : Jane Warren,Heather Merle Benbow
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015082670368

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Multilingual Europe by Jane Warren,Heather Merle Benbow Pdf

As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others.

Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms

Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund
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Author : Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263858

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Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms by Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund Pdf

This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition, teaching English as an additional language, and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia, as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism, the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume, multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.

Multilingual Europe

Charmian Kenner,Tina Hickey
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Author : Charmian Kenner,Tina Hickey
Publisher : Trentham Books Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015080869012

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Multilingual Europe by Charmian Kenner,Tina Hickey Pdf

What can educators in different countries learn from each other about successful multilingual initiatives? By comparing experiences from diverse settings--France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK--the writers highlight ways of creating multilingual learning communities that promote language expertise, intercultural understanding and educational achievement. Multilingual Europe casts fresh light on: how children and young people can develop their existing languages and learn new ones; how identities are constructed in multicultural contexts; how schools can link with families and communities; how educators can devise innovative pedagogies for multilingual classrooms. Collaboratively written by participants from the Multilingual Europe seminar series at Goldsmiths, University of London, the book shows how research, policy and practice can work together for success. This collection of international case studies will stimulate reflection for undergraduate and postgraduate students on education-related courses, students of language learning and teaching, teacher educators, researchers and policy-makers. The insights provided will interest language communities worldwide. Contributors include Jean Conteh, Christine Helot, Aura Mor-Sommerfeld and Dominique Portante.

Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis

Patrick Stevenson
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Author : Patrick Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319406060

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Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis by Patrick Stevenson Pdf

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a multicultural city in the heart of Europe, but what do we know about the number of languages spoken by its inhabitants and how they are used in everyday life? How do encounters with different languages impact on the experience of migration? And how do people use their experiences with language to shape their life stories?To investigate these questions, the author invites the reader to accompany him on a research expedition that leads to an apartment building in the highly diverse district of Neukölln. Its inhabitants come from different parts of the world and relate their experiences – their Berlin lives – in ways that reveal the complex and intricate relationships between language and migration.

An Introduction to Multilingualism

Florian Coulmas
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Author : Florian Coulmas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192508652

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An Introduction to Multilingualism by Florian Coulmas Pdf

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, Florian Coulmas systematically explores multilingualism with respect to the individual, institutions, cities, nations, and cyberspace. In each of these domains, the dynamics of language choice are undergoing changes as a result of economic, political, and cultural forces. Against this background, two chapters discuss the effects of linguistic diversity on the integration and separation of language and society, before a final chapter describes and assesses research methods for investigating multilingualism. Each chapter concludes with problems and questions for discussion, which place the topic in a real-world context. The book explores where, when, and why multilingualism came to be regarded as a problem, and why it presents a serious challenge for linguistic theory today. It provides the basic tools to analyse different kinds of multilingualism at both the individual and society level, and will be of interest to students of linguistics, sociology, education, and communication studies.