Saturday, May 17, 2008

More EU Policy

Migrant languages

Migrant languages are not given formal status or recognition in the EU or in the EU countries and they are not covered by EU language-teaching programmes. Only national and local authorities may provide classes to help immigrants learn the language of their adopted country.

Official languages of the European Union

The official languages of the European Union, as stipulated in the amended EEC Council: Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community of 1958-04-15,[2] are: [1]






2 comments:

Juliana Villegas said...

Hi Rachel,
Great topic and good depth to your research so far. You've got your dissertation topic here!

Yes, lots of research to be done in Berlin, but you are doing well to gather the background on this issue. Have you looked into "Denglish"? Lots of stuff coming out on this. Also, you might want to look at some theoretical readings that highlight "minority language". Deleuze an Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" is interesting...it's a different take on the subject of "minor"ity. Interesting also to take a comparative look at language policy in US and Germany.

Juliana Villegas said...

Here's an interesting read..
http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2008/01/24/honors-denglish/