Languages in Contact and Conflict: Contrasting Experiences by Sue Wright

By Sue Wright

In accordance with a chain of seminars given through students from the Netherlands and Belgium, this booklet covers such themes as: contemporary advancements within the Netherlands and the united kingdom, within the quarter of schooling and multiculturalism; the function of touch linguistics and the case of the eu Union; and the most recent constitutional advancements in Belgium, including their outcomes in language phrases. The e-book offers either the papers and the debates which undefined.

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The creation of a society in which the members of ethnic minorities living in the Netherlands hold a position of equality and have the full scope to develop themselves. What does this position of 'integration while retaining the own identity' mean for language education in a multilingual society? Or in other words, how much pluralism does a multilingual pupil need and how much assimilation can he/she take? g. for example teaching Turkish or Arabic as 'own' languages to Turkish or Moroccan pupils).

The consequence is that rights and social membership are offered to groups: the Turks, the Moluccans, the Moroccans, rather than towards individuals based on their progress through society. These groups then necessarily tend to solidify and erect barriers around themselves, mirroring the barriers that have been placed around them by the 'hosts': they gain advantage from being identified as a group, and society can deal with them as such. France comes above the line, maintaining that membership of the Republic is a matter for individuals and refusing to accept the existence of 'particularisms' or group membership as categories within the Republic (cf.

In the preliminary reaction of the Secretary of State of Education on Ceders in de tuin most of the recommendations with respect to ethnic minority language teaching are adopted. The 1991 policy paper on Own Language Teaching remains in force and it is for example proposed to include pupils of Chinese, Antillean and Surinamese origin in the provisions for Own Language Teaching in primary education (cf. Wallage 1993). 5. In the preliminary reaction of the State Secretary for Education and Science on Ceders in de tuin some of the recommendations with respect to DSL are accepted whereas others are clearly rejected.

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