Extra Guus, Yağmur Kutlay (ed.) Urban Multilingualism in Europe Immigrant Minority Languages at Home and School

Multilingual Matters, 2004. — x, 428 p. — ISBN: 1-85359-779-1; ISBN: 1-85359-778-3.This book focuses on the increase of urban multilingualism in Europe as a consequence of processes of migration and minorisation. It offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on immigrant minority languages at home and in school in six multicultural cities across Europe. In each of these cities, Germanic or Romance languages have a dominant status in public life. This Multilingual Cities Project is based on large-scale empirical findings and has been carried out under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation, in Amsterdam.Part I offers multidisciplinary background information on phenomenological, demographic, language rights and educational aspects of the status of immigrant minority communities and their languages in a variety of international contexts.Part II offers methodological considerations on the Multilingual Cities Project. In addition, it presents both national and local perspectives on multilingualism in each of the six cities under consideration. Each chapter provides information on the distribution and vitality of immigrant minority languages spoken at home and on the status of these languages in primary and secondary schools.Part III offers crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on the twenty most prominent languages that emerge from the study. The focus is again on the two major private and public domains in which language transmission may or may not occur: the home and the school, respectively. The book offers a challenging outlook on the educational management of language diversity in the increasingly multicultural and multilingual context of European nation-states.Multiltidisciplinary perspectives
Phenomenological perspectives
Ethnic identity and identification
Language and identity
The European discourse on foreigners and integration
Demographic perspectives
The European context
Australia
Canada
The United States of America
South Africa
Great Britain and Sweden
Conclusions and discussion
Language rights perspectives
Multilingualism as social reality
Global perspectives on language rights
European perspectives on language rights
Concluding remarks
Educational perspectives
Mother Tongue Education in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Languages Other Than English in Victoria State, Australia
Multilingual Cities Project: national and local perspectives
Methodological considerations
Rationale
Research goals
Design of the language survey questionnaire
Data collection
Data processing
Measuring language distribution
Specifying home language profiles
Measuring language vitality
Comparing the status of community languages at school
Outlook
Multilingualism in Göteborg
Background information
Home language instruction and home language statistics in Sweden
Home language survey in Göteborg
Home language instruction in primary and secondary schools
Conclusions and discussion
Multilingualism in Hamburg
Multicultural and multilingual trends in the city
Home language survey in Hamburg
Focus on Polish and Russian in Hamburg: the case of Aussiedler
Muttersprachlicher Unterricht in primary and secondary schools
Conclusions and discussion
Multilingualism in The Hague
Demographic trends
Home language survey in The Hague
OALT and ONST in primary and secondary schools
Parental needs for language instruction in primary schools
Conclusions and discussion