Acquisition, Loss or Multilingualism? Educational Planning for Speakers of Migrant Community Languages in Northern Ireland

Autor/in	McDermott, Philip
Titel	Acquisition, Loss or Multilingualism? Educational Planning for Speakers of Migrant Community Languages in Northern Ireland
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 9 (2008) 4, S.483-500 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1466-4208
Schlagwörter	Educational Planning; Multilingualism; Foreign Countries; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Language Skills; Irish; English (Second Language); Immigrants; Language Minorities; Indo European Languages; Sino Tibetan Languages; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Interviews; Stakeholders; United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsplanung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Ausland; Polnisch; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Irisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Sprachminderheit; Indoeuropäisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	Debates surrounding linguistic heritage in Northern Ireland have primarily centred on Irish (Gaelic) and Ulster-Scots. However, closer analysis suggests that there have long been other languages spoken in the region. Cantonese, Mandarin, Polish, Lithuanian and Portuguese are all spoken throughout Northern Ireland as the region experiences large-scale inward migration for the first time since the arrival of Scottish settlers in the 1600s. The fact that many of the new arrivals have come with little or no English language skills has implications for a number of public services, not least education. This paper will discuss how schools have responded to the needs of an increasingly multilingual environment by analysing new procedures and by drawing on interviews conducted with stakeholders in the area. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10