Multilingualism: Its open and hidden agendas

• Authors: Hanna Komorowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author analyses tendencies presented in recently launched EU reports claiming that newly published data reveal a need to rethink approaches to individual and social multilingualism. In the first part of the article approaches to individual as well as to societal multilingualism are discussed from a historical perspective. In the second part meanings ascribed to the promotion of multilingualism are analysed from the language perspective together with the use made of them in the field of social and political activity. Promoting multilingualism is then looked at from the perspectives of the learner and the teacher. Implications are finally sought for teaching, learning and assessment in language education.

Keywords

EN

European language policy; plurilingualism; multilingualism; second language teaching; multilingual teacher; language learning; assessment

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 463-482

Dates

cover

2013-12

Contributors

author

Hanna Komorowska

• University of Warsaw, Poland
• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

2083-5205

DOI

10.14746/ssllt.2013.3.4.2