Course: Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities

Accents can form distinctive variations in the pronunciation of any language. They can be either native or foreign, and can deliver information about a person’s geographical origin, about different ethnicities …

You have just heard a lot of information about current trends in language policies aiming at protecting and promoting multilingualism. You have listened to a language policy maker in a …

The text below is based on the chapter Language contact 1: maintenance, shift and death, written by Rajend Mesthrie and William L. Leap. It will give you an overview of …

In the previous step you watched the video in which Henk and José are talking about their multilingual practices. José is a new speaker of Frisian; she learnt it as …

In this video Henk Wolf and José Bruining, a Dutch-Frisian family, talk about their language use and about being a new speaker of a minority language. If you want to …

In this video Prof. Dr. Goffe Jensma takes you though the core concepts and the current themes around minority languages.

Third language acquisition is common in bilingual and multilingual contexts where two or more languages are used. Learning more than two languages is also found among the immigrant population and …

The base of this step is the article The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual’ by Victoria Marian and Anthony Shook (2012). Over the past few decades, technological advances have allowed …

In this video Dr. Hanneke Loerts explains an eye tracker experiment and provides an overview of research on multilingualism and cognition.

Some cognitive processes are different between monolingual and multilingual speakers. In this and the following step, we will introduce you to and let you try a Stroop task yourself. The …

In this video Prof. Dr. David Little reports on the multilingual approach of a school in Dublin which uses English and Irish for instruction, along with all languages spoken by …

In this video we see a the trilingual school De Flambou in Friesland, which teaches in Dutch, Frisian and English and includes migrant languages.

You are invited to read the summary of an article by Nelson Flores and Hugo Baetens (2015) about programs and structures in bilingual and multilingual education. Subtractive bilingual education Subtractive …

You have looked for information on how companies deal with diversity and multilingualism and you have heard the experience of a multilingual family on this. It is now time to …

In this video Dr. Eva Juarros Daussà from the University of Groningen provides an overview of the research on language maintenance and transmission.