Broeder Peter, Extra Guus. Language, Ethnicity and Education

Multilingual Matters, 1998. — viii, 129 p. — ISBN 1-85359-430-X.The book presents case studies of immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Europe and abroad, analysed from demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives. The demographic perspective focuses on the role of language and ethnicity in multicultural population statistics, the sociolinguistic perspective on the vitality of immigrant minority languages, and the educational perspective on the status of immigrant minority languages in education.Demographic perspectives: Case studies on immigrant minority groups in population statistics
Aims and method
European Union statistics on immigrant minority groups
Comparative European Union statistics
The Netherlands as case study
Census experiences in English-dominant immigration countries
Australia
Canada
The United States
South Africa
Conclusions and discussion
Sociolinguistic perspectives: Case studies on the vitality of immigrant minority languages
Aims and method
Language-related criteria as determinants of ethnicity
Feasibility study
Validation study
Evaluation
Home language survey
Status and use of the most frequently mentioned languages
Turkish
Arabic
Berber
Papiamentu
English
Sranan/Surinamese
Chinese
Malay
Spanish
Hind(ustan)i
Romanes
Conclusions and discussion
Educational perspectives: Case studies on the status of immigrant minority languages in education
Aims and method
Educational experiences in European Union countries
Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
The Netherlands
Sweden
Conclusions and discussionHome language survey: instruction and questionnaire
Questionnaire on IMLI in compulsory education
Directive 77/486 of the CEC (1977)