In oersjoch fan Mercators aktiviteiten

Ruth Kircher and Lena Zipp edited the book 'Research Methods in Language Attitudes'. It provides an overview of traditional & cutting-edge research methods for the study of language attitudes: it helps researchers choose an appropriate method and guides them through research planning, design, data collection, and analysis.

This Regional Dossier is the second and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Latgalian language in education in Latvia'. This Regional Dossier was updated in 2022 by Sanita Martena (Lazdiņa), Heiko F. Marten, and Ilga Šuplinska, based on the first edition compiled by Heiko F. Marten, Ilga Šuplinska, and Sanita Lazdiņa in 2008/2009.

Policymakers and communities play an essential role in supporting bilingual babies’ Language Learning! Find out what they & you can do, in this new blog post by Mercator researcher Ruth Kircher and her colleagues from Concordia Infant Research Laboratory & Princeton University.

Mercator researchers Anna Fardau Schukking and Ruth Kircher have published a new blogpost about the challenges faced by refugees, and what host societies can do to help them re-build their careers.

In this extensive report on 2021, 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.

This Regional Dossier is the second and fully updated edition of the dossier 'The Croatian language in education in Austria', originally compiled in 2001 by Gerhard Baumgartner. Katharina Tyran (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Vienna) updated the dossier in 2022.

Zoha Bayat, whose PhD is co-supervised by Hans Van de Velde (Fryske Akademy) and Ruth Kircher (Mercator), has first-authored this important new paper, which looks at Minority Language Rights to education with a focus on Frisian in the Netherlands.

A new open access paper about professional intercultural communicative competence and labour market integration among highly-educated refugees in the Netherlands.

The study presented here is the first large-scale, quantitative study of the evaluative dimensions and potential predictors of Quebec-based parents’ attitudes towards childhood multilingualism.

The study presented here by Dr Ruth Kircher is the first empirical investigation of the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French in Quebec.