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Importance of Multilingualism in Germany. By: Ana Luisa Rivas. Multilingualism in German Schools. In Germany, a growing number of children are growing up bilingual Of a good 38,000 schools in Germany only about 400 offer multilingual programs
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Importance of Multilingualism in Germany By: Ana Luisa Rivas
Multilingualism in German Schools In Germany, a growing number of children are growing up bilingual Of a good 38,000 schools in Germany only about 400 offer multilingual programs The most popular languages taught in Germany are French and English. The platform CSPM recommends strategies including making plurilingual education (“mother tongue” plus 2 other languages) the norm. Multilingualism is seen as crucial to the preservation and accessibility of the common European cultural heritage
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Multilingual Families In Germany Multilingual children enter a decisive level of development when they go to school. German becomes the dominant language in schools and it becomes a stronger language and the second language recedes into the background This creates a problem in the family such as alienation from the child’s cultural and linguistic background For bi-national families, it is recommended for the parents to speak to their children in their mother language for the first five or six years. In Germany, for multilingual families, the children tend to speak their mother language at home while they develop German in school.
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Multilingual Immigrants in Germany Germany is struggling with the actual multilingual nature of its society. Many language specialists are focusing on making multilingualism a permanent fixture in educational institutions Most of the multilingual people in Germany are immigrants. “Deutsch alsZweitsprache in allen Fächern” is a program that helps children of immigrant families to successfully learn German. The RAA in Herne is trying to strengthen the Turkish parents’ roles to incorporate socialization roles with their children.
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Questions The most popular languages taught in Germany are English and Polish English and French French and Italian French and Turkish Of 38,000 schools in Germany ___ offer multilingual programs 200 1,200 400 10,000
Answers 1. B 2. C
Bibliography http://www.goethe.de/ges/spa/prj/sog/mup/en8618046.htm www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/mac/msp/en1396470.htm http://languagerichblog.eu/2011/08/26/education-and-public-services-must-go-multilingual-recommends-eu-platform