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Schröder, Konrad – Language Learning Journal, 2018
The paper gives an overview of FLT in the German-speaking regions of Europe from medieval times to the present day, within a framework of language politics, communicative needs and educational ideologies. The languages addressed are French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian and Turkish. Basic social and professional data of the various groups of…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History
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Belenkova, Nataliya M.; Kruse, Irina I.; Vydra, Doris – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The contemporary international situation is characterized by the humanitarian crisis and a great wave of refugees. The border crossing point of a host country separates the refugees` former life full of suffering and pain and the expectations of a new peaceful life. Here a language mediator is considered like a person who can show the refugee the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Civil Rights, Peace, Land Settlement
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Bacher, Sonja – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This work-in-progress study focuses on the implementation of digital media into the Russian language classroom at secondary schools in the German-speaking countries of Austria, Germany, and the trilingual region South Tyrol. The data were collected in a mixed-methods procedure: quantitative data from online questionnaires and qualitative data from…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Paulston, Christina Bratt; Haragos, Szidonia; Lifrieri, Veronica; Martelle, Wendy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
This paper defines and provides examples of a category of linguistic minorities that we call extrinsic minorities. Three case studies are summarised to illustrate the spectrum of linguistic heterogeneity of extrinsic minorities, and the linguistic consequences. These cases show a continuum of how they fit into our definition of extrinsic…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Case Studies