One of the potential contradictions facing foreign language use in Europe is that as English
is added to linguistic repertoires it is the learning of English itself which may be a force …

During the last two decades the European Commission and the Council of Europe have
taken political initiatives to promote multilingualism. The underlying assumption to …

The book series Multilingual Education publishes top quality monographs and edited
volumes containing empirical research on multilingual language acquisition, language …

This chapter draws upon the activity of one of the workpackages within the LINEE thematic
network (Workpackage 8), which was concerned to research evolving conceptions of …

The European Union (EU) is clearly committed to a multilingual Europe in which all its
educational systems are advised to include two Community languages. In 1995 the White …

Throughout European history, multilingualism has coexisted with one or more linguae
francae. Today's European lingua franca is English, and it, too, functions within a thoroughly …

Internationalization has been a central concept in university strategic policy for several
decades. Internationalization is often a key factor in both university rankings and …

In the globalized world, not only one's language plays an increasingly important role, but
also the knowledge of other foreign language (s) and their associated culture (s). With their …

English Since the European Year of Languages (2001) we have increasingly moved away
from the goal of multilingualism in Europe. This applies at least to the language of science …

As globalization and European integration gather momentum, encounters between
speakers who do not share the same mother tongue are no longer exceptional. This raises …