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'English [as a "Lingua Franca"] Is Absolutely out of Question!' -- The Struggle between Globalization and (Neo-)nationalist Traditions in Switzerland's Secondary Schools
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Anna Becker – Language and Education, 2024
The increasing popularity of radical right, anti-immigrant, neo-nationalist movements can be seen as a response to super-diverse and complex migration and globalization processes challenging the ideology of the 'nation-state' and the traditional education system. Based on the question of how English is increasingly viewed as a threat to Swiss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Diversity and Multilingual Challenges in Academic Settings
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Yanaprasart, Patchareerat; Lüdi, Georges – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Higher Education is caught between internationalization on the one hand and the quest for local support by fostering local practices on the other. The clash between uniformity-standardization and localization-specialization manifests itself in every university trying to adopt internationalization strategies. How can universities manage this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Language Planning, Higher Education
Pluralistic Approaches to Languages in the Curriculum: The Case of French-Speaking Switzerland, Spain and Austria
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Daryai-Hansen, Petra; Gerber, Brigitte; Lörincz, Ildikó; Haller, Michaela; Ivanova, Olga; Krumm, Hans-Jürgen; Reich, Hans H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
While the idea of plurilingual competence is widely established theoretically and promoted in European language policies, it is not implemented in educational practice, where separate plurilingualism is still dominant. The idea of languages as autonomous entities is e.g. reflected in the "Common European Framework of Reference for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Multilingualism, Guidelines
Language Policy, Tacit Knowledge, and Institutional Learning: The Case of the Swiss Public Service Broadcaster SRG SSR
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Perrin, Daniel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
"Promoting public understanding" is what the programming mandate asks the Swiss public broadcasting company SRG SSR to do. From a sociolinguistic perspective, this means linking speech communities with other speech communities, both between and within the German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-speaking parts of Switzerland. In the…
Descriptors: Journalism, Language Planning, Action Research, Ethnography
Project d'analyse contrastive de l'espagnol, du francais et de l'italien: PACEFI (A Contrastive Analysis Project of Spanish, French, and Italian)
Py, Bernard – Contact, 1973
PACEFI is a working committee at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, French, Italian
Le Changement linguistique: Evolution, variation, and heterogeneite. Actes du colloque de Neuchatel Universite (Neuchatel, Suisse, 2-4 Octobre 2000) (Linguistic Change: Evolution, Variation, Heterogeneity. Proceedings of the University of Neuchatel Colloquium [Neuchatel, Switzerland, October 2-4, 2000]).
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Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles