1. Mercator Research Centre at the Fryske Akademy / Fryslân Alex RIEMERSMA Workshop Minority Languages and Multilingual Education European Centre for Modern Languages ECML Graz, Austria / Österreich, February 17, 2011 Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning www.mercator-research.eu

2. Early Middle ages Late Middle ages Today Fryslân in history

3. Wales 15 March 2010 Fryske Akademy

4. Wales 15 March 2010 Language Planning Corpus planning: - orthography, dictionary, terminology Status planning: - legislation, institutional infrastructure Language acquisition planning: - education at all levels, and - intergenerational language transmission

6. Mercator Research Centre at Fryske Akademy  1987-2006: EU funded Documentation & Information Centre  2 Partners: Media: Aberystwyth & Legislation: Barcelona  2007-2008: transition to Documentation and Research Funded by province of Fryslân and municipality of Ljouwert/Leeuwarden

7. Mercator Network  2009-2011: EU funded  Mercator Ljouwert (Fryslân) “ lead partner ”  Aberystwyth – University of Wales  Barcelona – Ciemen  Boedapest – Hungarian Academy of Sciences  Eskilstuna (Sweden) – M ä lardalen University

8. Mercator Research Centre at Fryske Akademy  Scientific research & data collection  Information centre & platform function  Data base of experts  Newsletter & website  Network of Schools  Q & A service  Regional Dossiers

9.  40 language descriptions  Author = local expert  Update every 5-7 years  Online available Regional Dossiers

10. Research themes  Minimum Standards of RML education  Added value of multilingualism  Bi- and Trilingual Schooling

11. Report on Minimum Standards on Education in RMLs (2007)  On request of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRAE) of the Council of Europe  Recommendations to the Council of Ministers of the Council of Europe

12. Themes of analysis  Educational goals & models  Time spent  Teaching materials  Teacher training  Inspectorate  Legal position

13. Member States & Languages  Austria: Slovenian, Croatian  Germany: Sorbian  Netherlands: Frisian  Slovakia: Hungarian  Slovenia: Italian  Spain: Catalan  Sweden: Sami  United Kingdom: Welsh

14. Added Value of Multilingualism  In co-operation with Ikerbasque, co- funded by the Ministry of Eduation of the Basque Autonomous Community  Focus on secondary school  Focus on English as a third language

15. Trilingual primary schooling  Inventory study on provisions of trilingual primary education  10 case studies, a.o.: - Basque Country; Catalunya; - Finland (Vaasa); Italy (Ladin); - Luxembourg; - North-Frisia (Germany); - Frisian (the Netherlands):

16. Trilingual education in Fryslân  Model used (with flexibility): - Group 1-6: 50 % Frisian, 50 % Dutch - Group 7-8: 40 % Frisian, 40 % Dutch, 20% English  Systematic use of Frisian, Dutch and English as a medium of instruction  Concious and strictly separated use of languages: person / time / themes  Interactive language education

17. Mercator Network of Schools  > 90 members  > 30 language communities  15 EU member states  News bulletins  Website: - teaching materials - projects

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19. Partner in European Projects - 1  NPLD: Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (regional authorities & NGO’s) - Platform to EU institutions - Projects with EU funding  MELT: Multilingual Early Language Transmission (= pre-school sector): - Toolkit practitones & awareness raising for the “informed choice”

20. Partner in European Projects - 2  EUNoM: European Network of Universitites on Multilingualism: - research & Master Multilingualism  Language Rich Europe (British Council): - documentation language policies  Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism: on request EU

21. Mercator Conferences 2011  7-8 April: in co-operation with SOAS Theme: languages of the wider world, maintenance, shift & revitalisation  26-27 May: in co-operation with Basque Government Theme: What can languages add to the multicultural society?

22. Intended Network of Teacher Training Institutes  Aiming at:  Relationship between teacher training and primary / secondary education  Teacher’s competences in multilingualism  Didactic methods towards continuity

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