plurilingualism

Not simply because, as a linguist-to-be, I'm 'supposed' to be in favour of it, but for all the reasons outlined in Crystal 2000 plurilingualism assures diversity, etc.

languagehat.com: WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES. 2005

Dante, language, authorship: Dante's influence and linguistic experimentation; plurilingualism; Dante's presence in 20th-century avant-gardes and Dante as a paradigm for the concept of avant-gardism itself; authorship and autobiography; authorship and the tyranny of subjectivity; Dante's relationship to his precursors and the construction of a literary canon.

Fabula : à la une 2009

Alerting the public to the importance of language learning and diversifying the range of languages learnt in order to increase plurilingualism and intercultural understanding;

Nothingandall 2008

Slide 15: Plurilingualism and the ELP • The ELP validates plurilingualism by - accommodating all the languages that the user knows ELP-WSU - giving equal value to all language proficiency - allowing the user to record partial competences • The challenge for educational systems is to find ways of enacting this validation explicitly • A principal task for ELP-WSU: to find practical ways of responding effectively to the challenge

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Celebrating linguistic diversity, plurilingualism, lifelong language learning

Nothingandall 2008

Slide 13: The plurilingual approach • Language rights are part of human rights • A policy of plurilingualism is "crucial for social and political inclusion of all Europeans, whatever their linguistic ELP-WSU competences" (Beacco & Byram 2002, p. 9) • A policy of plurilingualism is also central to the creation of a sense of European identity •

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Slide 15: Plurilingualism and the ELP • The ELP validates plurilingualism by - accommodating all the languages that the user knows ELP-WSU - giving equal value to all language proficiency - allowing the user to record partial competences • The challenge for educational systems is to find ways of enacting this validation explicitly • A principal task for ELP-WSU: to find practical ways of responding effectively to the challenge

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Language education policies in Europe should aim to "enable individuals to be plurilingual either by maintaining and developing their existing plurilingualism or by helping them to develop from monolingualism (or bilingualism) into plurilingualism" (Beacco & Byram 2002, p. 9)

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Slide 13: The plurilingual approach • Language rights are part of human rights • A policy of plurilingualism is "crucial for social and political inclusion of all Europeans, whatever their linguistic ELP-WSU competences" (Beacco & Byram 2002, p. 9) • A policy of plurilingualism is also central to the creation of a sense of European identity •

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Language education policies in Europe should aim to "enable individuals to be plurilingual either by maintaining and developing their existing plurilingualism or by helping them to develop from monolingualism (or bilingualism) into plurilingualism" (Beacco & Byram 2002, p. 9)

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