With news about, among other things, the adoption of a resolution in support of the Minority SafePack Initiative by the European Parliament, a huge grant for the development of a mobile solution for automatic translation between sign and oral languages, a linguistic emergency for Catalan, the ENROPE events for junior researchers, over 130 podcasts available in Welsh language, and much more!
This Regional Dossier is the second and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Hungarian language in education in Slovakia', originally compiled in 2005 by Dr Ildikó Vančo (Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Science, Univerzita Konštantína Filozófa v Nitre). Dr Vančo updated the dossier in 2020.
‘Of course I’ll care for my patients in their mother tongue – even if it’s my third language!’. A blog post about promoting minority language learning among migrants working in the health care sector in bilingual regions of Europe, e.g. to encourage the learning of Frisian in Fryslân (based on the Erasmus+ funded COMBI project).
7-9 December, 2020. With presentations by Mercator researchers on the SPEAKABOO project and on the innovative multi-didactic approaches of the VirtuLApp and the COMBI project.
Learn more about global citizenship and multilingual practices in the classroom, with MA Bakk. Prof. Wilma Hauser (University of Teacher Education, Austria).
This Regional Dossier is the second edition of the dossier 'The Sámi language in education in Sweden', originally compiled by Mikael Svonni. The dossier was updated in 2020 by Lieuwe Jan Hettema (MA in Sámi journalism from an Indigenous perspective at Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Guovdageaidnu) and Hanna Outakoski (Senior lecturer North Sámi language and associate professor at the Sámi Studies unit of the Department of Language Studies at Ubmejen Universitiähta / Umeå...
With news about, among other things, the passing away of minority rights defender Willy Kuijpers, the new FUEN resolution, a perception change for Catalan speakers, an emergency fund for Irish language groups, the LoCALL project on linguistic landscapes, an article on ethnolinguistic vitality of West Frisian, and much more!
