MEITS - Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies: Recent submissions
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Linguistic variation in language learning classrooms: considering the role of regional variation and ‘non-standard’ varieties
(MEITS, 2020-12-01)• Attitudes to language norms and variation in language teaching vary widely. • Concerns among professionals include anxiety that introducing learners to ‘non-standard’ varieties might lead to ambiguity and confusion, and ... -
Translation as social policy: quality management in public service interpreting and translation
(MEITS, 2020-12-01)Translation is an essential tool in diverse societies. As language conflicts grow within certain sectors of the population, translation and interpreting contribute to bridging the communication gap within multilingual ... -
Why embed multilingualism into university practices?
(MEITS, 2020-12-01)This paper draws on my experiences with language in English and non-English-speaking universities, minority language education research (Migge et al. 2010) and on a survey-based research project on linguistic diversity at ... -
Counting languages: how to do it and what to avoid. A German perspective
(MEITS, 2020-12-01)The annual microcensus provides Germany’s most important official statistics. Unlike a census it does not cover the whole population, but a representative 1%-sample of it. • In 2017, the German microcensus asked a question ...
