The Language Education Policy Profile of the Council of Europe — the example of Austria

• Authors: Rudolf de Cillia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The following article reports on an offer of the Council of Europe to his member countries, the Language Education Policy Profile / Profil de politiques linguistiques éducatives (LEPP) and on the realisation of this procedure in Austria. LEPP is a kind of self-evaluation of a country’s language education policy, supported by extern experts nominated by the Council of Europe. In Austria, it was realised between 2006 and 2008. After a brief characteristic of the Council of Europe’s language education policy principles, the three phases of the LEPP are illustrated at the example of Austria: a National Country Report describing the current situation; an Expert’s Report, written after a visit in the country by the experts; and the final product, the Language Education Policy Profile. Finally, measures taken by Austria’s institutions after the end of the process are reported.

Keywords

EN

Austria; bilingual education; Council of Europe; early language learning; language education policy,; language policy unit migrant languages; minority languages; multilingualism; plurilingualism; teacher training

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: special issue
• Pages: 7-17

Contributors

author

Rudolf de Cillia

• University of Vienna