Language Use in University Teaching and Research
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2014 of EFNIL in Florence
Published on 28. September 2015
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-3-631-66472-8 (ISBN)
Description
The twelfth conference of the European Federation of the National Institutions of Language (EFNIL) at the Accademia della Crusca dealt with the increasing tendency to use English as the language of academic instruction and research in Europe. This development can be seen as progress in international scientific communication at the cost of all languages other than English. The volume presents general reflections, reports and discussions on the linguistic situation at the universities of various European countries, some with a historical perspective. As a conclusion it offers a «Resolution of Florence concerning Language Use in University Teaching and Research» in the 26 official languages of most member states of the European Union and other European countries.
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Persons
Gerhard Stickel was the director of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. He is co-founder of EFNIL and has been president of this network of central language institutions of the EU states since 2003.
Cecilia Robustelli is Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is the delegate of the Accademia della Crusca and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano in EFNIL.
Content
Contents: Claudio Marazzini: Saluto del Presidente dell'Accademia della Crusca - Marco Benedetti: Discorso - Pierre Mairesse: Allocution d'ouverture - Pinuccia Contino: Discorso/Address - Susanna Slivensky/Margit Huber: Greetings from the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe (ECML) - Rita Librandi: Le lingue delle universita italiane nel passato - Ulrich Ammon: Deutsch und Englisch in Forschung und Lehre an deutschen Universitaeten: Geschichte, gegenwaertige Situation und Zukunftsperspektiven - Jan-Ola OEstman: Language use in academia in the Nordic countries - with special reference to Finland - Francois Grin: Managing languages in academia: Pointers from education economics and language economics - Cecilia Robustelli: L'uso delle lingue nelle universita italiane oggi - Gu?run Kvaran: The use of foreign languages at Icelandic universities - Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen: Language use in university teaching and research in Denmark - Birute Klaas-Lang/Helle Metslang: Language policy and sustainability of Estonian in higher education - Jean-Francois Bald : Le francais dans l'enseignement superieur : le debat en France - Nathalie Marchal : L'usage des langues dans les universites en Belgique francophone - Marilena Karyolemou: Language use in higher education in Cyprus: National aspirations, language ideology and economic development - Simona Bergoc: The language of instruction at universities between internationalization and sustainable language policy: The case of Slovenia - Wladyslaw T. Miodunka: The use of languages in university teaching and research in Poland - Johan Van Hoorde: Dutch or English? English and Dutch! The language shift in tertiary education and science in the Dutch language area.