Teaching The Mother Tongue In A Multilingual Europe

Deals with policies and practices of "mother tongue" teaching in nine European countries, including the preparation of teachers. The book examines political and cultural issues, presents articles by practitioners from each of the countries chosen, and deals with teacher preparation at all levels.


Contents: Mother tongue and identity; the role of the vernacular; the politics of mother tongue education; English in UK (Welsh in Wales); French in France (Italian in the Savoie); Russian in Russia (Tarter in its autonomous region); Polish in Poland (Belorussian in eastern Poland); Spanish in Spain (Catalonian in the Generalidad); Finnish in Finland (Swedish in Findland); German in Germany (Kurdish in Germany); Greek in Greece (the demotic in Greece); language and language awareness.