The European Union’s approach to multilingualism in its own communications policy

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Veröffentlichung: 
Ĵaŭdo, 15. September 2022
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Bücher
Medium: 
European Parliament
Region (Bundesland): 
Andere Länder
Raportita de: 
Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven

Abstract

This study assesses the EU’s approach to multilingualism in
its communications policy. An innovative mixed methods
approach is used to investigate compliance with
multilingualism obligations and the language regimes and
practices of EU institutions, bodies and agencies, especially
on EU websites. The fit with the linguistic skills of EU27
residents is also investigated. Policy recommendations are
provided to enhance the transparency and accessibility of
EU communication policy taking account of feasibility
constraints.

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7.6 The promotion of multilingualism in the education system

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EU citizens have made several proposals to promote multilingualism in the education system using the
Multilingual Digital Platform of the Conference on the Future of Europe in 2021-2022. They suggest
strengthening EU efforts to promote language learning, and to support linguistic diversity in the media
and in the Erasmus+ programme (a detailed account of all ideas is presented in Kantar Public, 2022).
The most endorsed one in the field of education, culture, youth and sport (which was also the fifth most
endorsed idea among the 16,274 ideas recorded on the Multilingual Digital Platform) refers precisely to
language learning. It calls on the EU to disseminate the results of an innovative Erasmus+ programme
called the “Multilingual Accelerator” which has proved successful in a number of primary schools in
three EU countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia) in 2018 and 2019. The “Multilingual Accelerator”
programme showed a significant and rapid improvement in foreign language skills of schoolchildren
aged 8 to 9, who acquired these skills by first learning a limited and carefully-chosen amount of a logical
living language such as Esperanto.
Link zum Artikel: 

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2022/699648/IPOL_STU(2022)699648_EN.pdf

Vorüberschrift: 

Study
Requested by the CULT Committee

Autor: 
Dr. Carlos MENDEZ (project leader); Dr. Michele GAZZOLA, Prof. Laure CLEMENT-WILZ, Dr. Vasiliki TRIGA, Dr. Fernando MENDEZ, Dr. Costas DJOUVAS, Antonis CHARAMBOULOS, Prof. John BACHTLER
Archiv: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20241204094812/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2022/699648/IPOL_STU(2022)699648_EN.pdf