An overview of our past activities

'Minority language education plays a crucial role in promoting the vitality of minority languages, and thus ensuring their maintenance.' A blog post about Mercator's online Wiki on Minority Language Learning, that offers information on the education of minority languages that have only a (very) small place in the national education system, or none at all.

Dizze update is bedoeld as oanfolling op it DINGtiid-rapport “De ymplemintaasje fan it Europeesk Hânfêst...” [Buning-Oosten & Kuipers-Zandberg], dat skreaun waard yn 2018 en giet fierder dêr’t dat rapport ophâlden is.

Deze update is bedoeld als aanvulling op het DINGtiid-rapport 'De ymplemintaasje fan it Europeesk Hânfêst...'[Buning-Oosten & Kuipers-Zandberg], dat werd geschreven in 2018 en gaat verder waar dat rapport is gestopt.

In this extensive quadrennial report on the years 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning is looking back on its activities. These activities can be divided into research, documentation services, the application of research outcomes, (international) events and (joint) projects.

Are corpus-assisted discourse studies of social media data a useful way of investigating language attitudes? Find out in this new Strictly Language blogpost by Ethan Kutlu (University of Florida’s Psychology department) and Ruth Kircher (Mercator European Research Centre).

Spanish speakers constitute the largest heritage language community in the US. The state of Florida is unusual in that, on one hand, it has one of the highest foreign-born resident rates in the country, most of whom originate from Latin America—but on the other hand, Florida has a comparatively low Spanish language vitality.

The members of the European project ENROPE (European Network for Junior Researchers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education) give a short insight into their conceptual design based on three intellectual outputs and report briefly about to date realised and further planned activities to strengthen plurilingual practices in research on education.

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).

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...