Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe

by Tulasiewicz, Witold; Adams, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780304334902
• ISBN10: 0304334901
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
The Contributors	viii
List of Maps	ix
Part I Mother Tongue: Definitions and Teaching Implications	1	(66)
What Is Mother Tongue?	3	(11)
Mother Tongue and Identity	14	(9)
Mother Tongue Standards	23	(7)
Teaching the Mother Tongue	30	(13)
Mother Tongues in a Wider Context	43	(20)
Language Policies in the European Union	63	(4)
Part II The Mother Tongues of Europe: Nine Case Studies	67	(4)
Introduction	71	(126)
Teaching the Mother Tongue in England	73	(14)
Robert Protherough
Teaching Welsh and English in Wales	87	(14)
Mary Rose Peate
Nikolas Couplandandd
Peter Garrett
Teaching the Mother Tongue in France	101	(22)
Francoise Convey
Teaching the Mother Tongue in Spain	123	(14)
Antonia Ruiz Esturla
Teaching the Mother Tongue in Germany	137	(16)
Ingelore Oomen-Welkeandd
Guido Schmitt
Teaching Majority and Minority Mother Tongues in Denmark	153	(10)
J. Normann Jorgensenandd
Anne Holmen
Teaching Mother Tongue Polish	163	(11)
Anna Berlinska
Maintaining the Mother Tongue: The National Indentity of the Belorussians in Poland	174	(10)
Elzbieta Czykwin
Russian and Other Mother Tongues in the School of the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union	184	(13)
James Muckle
part III Language Awareness in Mother Tongue Teaching	197	(10)
The Importance of Language Awareness	199	(8)
Bibliographies	207	(18)
Index	225