Language Use in University Teaching and Research: Contributions to the Annual Conference 2014 of EFNIL in Florence

by Gerhard Stickel (Editor), Cecilia Robustelli (Editor)

Overview

The increasing tendency to use English as dominant language of academic instruction and research in Europe is described and discussed. In reports on the situation in various European countries, the development is seen as detrimental to all languages other than English. This concern is also expressed in a resolution offered in 26 European languages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631664728
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/28/2015
Series:	DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture , #109
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gerhard Stickel was the director of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. He is co-founder of EFNIL and has been president of this network of central language institutions of the EU states since 2003.
Cecilia Robustelli is Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is the delegate of the Accademia della Crusca and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano in EFNIL.

Table of Contents

Contents: Claudio Marazzini: Saluto del Presidente dell’Accademia della Crusca – Marco Benedetti: Discorso – Pierre Mairesse: Allocution d’ouverture – Pinuccia Contino: Discorso/Address – Susanna Slivensky/Margit Huber: Greetings from the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe (ECML) – Rita Librandi: Le lingue delle università italiane nel passato – Ulrich Ammon: Deutsch und Englisch in Forschung und Lehre an deutschen Universitäten: Geschichte, gegenwärtige Situation und Zukunftsperspektiven – Jan-Ola Östman: Language use in academia in the Nordic countries - with special reference to Finland – François Grin: Managing languages in academia: Pointers from education economics and language economics – Cecilia Robustelli: L’uso delle lingue nelle università italiane oggi – Guðrún Kvaran: The use of foreign languages at Icelandic universities – Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen: Language use in university teaching and research in Denmark – Birute Klaas-Lang/Helle Metslang: Language policy and sustainability of Estonian in higher education – Jean-François Bald : Le français dans l’enseignement supérieur : le débat en France – Nathalie Marchal : L’usage des langues dans les universités en Belgique francophone – Marilena Karyolemou: Language use in higher education in Cyprus: National aspirations, language ideology and economic development – Simona Bergoč: The language of instruction at universities between internationalization and sustainable language policy: The case of Slovenia – Władysław T. Miodunka: The use of languages in university teaching and research in Poland – Johan Van Hoorde: Dutch or English? English and Dutch! The language shift in tertiary education and science in the Dutch language area.

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