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New Regional Dossier: "Albanian in education in Italy"
In July the Mercator Research Centre published the new Regional Dossier "Albanian in education in Italy" (author: Giovanni Belluscio). Regional Dossiers aim at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union.
Download the dossier.
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Expert in the Spotlight 2010 Glyn Williams
The exp ert in the Spotlight feature gives you the chance to interact one-in-one with our Ask the expert-section. The feature also provides interesting and insightful comments regarding the field of European minority languages or regional languages, bilingualism and multilingualism at school and at home, education, language learning, language policy and cultural participation in favour of linguistic diversity in Europe, in-depth content and exclusive Q and A’s.
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Glyn Williams has been working as Research Professor at University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, at the University of San Francisco, the University of Bangor, Wales, University of Cardiff and University College Dublin. Since 2000 he has retired but still is working. He has written 14 books and over a hundred papers on a variety of topics including language and society, regional development, ethnicity, media and technology. His latest book is titled: “The knowledge economy, language and culture” and offers a thoughtful, original and often provocative interpretation of the mutual relationships between the linguistic, the political, the social and the economic. Read more...
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New report: Languages and Language education in Fryslân. The role and position in the province of Fryslân and Frisian education”
This monograph is one of the outcomes of the research project on the topic of the “Added value of multilingualism and multilingual education” as part of the agreement between the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community (Department of Education, Universities and Research) and the Fryske Akademy. Rynke Douwes and Barbara Lotti from the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning drafted the first version of this report. Later Rynke Douwes and Marieke Hanenburg gave this report its final shape. The monograph consists of three parts. The first part describes the history and position of the Frisian language. The second part depicts the general educational context in the Netherlands and Fryslân. The last part describes the multilingual situation in Frisian education. Read more.
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Database of Experts
Already 400 Experts subscribed the Database of Experts! The Mercator Research Centre is still in search of more Experts. This database creates an easy and quick access to all expertise in the field of European minority languages and it facilitates contacts and cooperation amongst colleagues in this domain. In the mean time 400 experts in the field of European minority languages, bilingualism and multilingualism, language learning, education and language policy subscribed.
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Network of Schools
The Network of Schools' mission is to create a platform for multilingual schools in minority regions within Europe in order to facilitate the exchange of information and experiences.
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Endangered Languages
The work on Endangered Languages (Phonetics and Ethnolinguistics) at the Fryske Akademy and the Mercator Research Centre is focused on the study of language contrasts, language contact and language change. We investigate the phonetic aspects of languages and dialects of minority and regional languages, in particular those of the Russian Federation and neighbouring countries. This work is supported by grants from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Organisation INTAS of the European Union, the British Library, Japanese Foundations and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd.
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Regional dossiers
The Regional dossiers describe the position of lesser-used languages in education, give information on national and regional education systems, and include the latest statistics regarding lesser-used languages in education in Europe.
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The Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning (Mercator Research Centre in short) aims at the acquisition, circulation and application of knowledge. The Mercator Research Centre gathers and mobilises expertise in the field of language learning at school, at home and through cultural participation in favour of linguistic diversity of Europe. The Mercator Research Centre is an independent and recognised reference centre for policymakers and professional workers in the field of multilingual education and language learning. The Mercator Research Centre brings Europe to Fryslân and Fryslân to Europe.
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