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Language130219
Project
Language Policies and Legal Action to overcome Language Barriers in
education
Project Information
Dissemination Lifelong Learning Programme
Project, co-funded by foundations and organizations
Description of the action
Eurydice
statistics (Based on Eurostat) cover refugee children under immigrant
children (see Report: Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in
Europe. Brussels 2004). The proportion of foreign nationals aged under
15 in the total population of those aged under 15 at 1 January 2001 is
(some examples): BE (6,5 %), CZ (0,8 %), DK (5,8 %), DE (10,2 %), ES
(2,1 %), FR (4,0 %), LU (39,3 %), HU (0,6 %), NL (4,2 %), AT (10,5 %),
SI (1,1 %), FI (1,8 %), SE (5,2 %), UK (2,5 %), NO (3,5 %). The number
of asylum applications per 1000 inhabitants (asylum ratio) of 2002 is
(corresponding examples): BE (1,82), CZ (0,83), DK (1,11), DE (0,86),
ES (0,16), FR (0,86), LU (2,35), HU (0,63), NL (1,16), AT (4,9), SI
(0,33), FI (0,66), SE (3,71), UK (1,19), NO (3,28). Comparison of the
two numbers show, that proportion of refugee children among immigrant
children in AT, SE and NO are significantly and in BE, LU, UK and NL
higher than on average.
Education should serve as a bridge to
participation of non-EU member states long-term residents, including
migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the host society.
Whether
the outcome is successful will depend to a significant extent on
instruction in schools and whether they succeed in acquiring the basic
skills and competences. As children cannot be blamed for their language
deficiency, host states have the responsibility for overcoming language
barriers in and through education. An important barrier to overcome is
the first language of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers that is
nearly always not the language of instruction. Most of the time they do
not have any knowledge of the language of instruction upon arrival in a
EU Member State. Specific integration measures are provision of
interpreters in schools, school-based support measures such as
compensation for language needs (e.g. teaching the host country
language of instruction; programs to introduce very young children to
the language of instruction), school-based recognition of non-EU member
states long-term residents’ culture (e.g. measures to support the
language and culture of origin), etc…
Project type:
LLP AM Comenius
Start date:
1st December 2011
End date:
January 2013
Coordinating institution:
University of Antwerp
Co-beneficiary: European Association for Education Law and Policy (ELA)
Contact details of the coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Gracienne Lauwers
Universiteit Antwerpen
Arthur Goemaerelei 52
B-2018 ANTWERPEN
Belgium
Phone: +32/3/238.44.23
mailto: glauwers@me.com
Principle results:
- Project website containing the series of country reports
- Project booklet (download PDF file)
- Country Reports (download PDF file)
- Proceedings (download PDF file)
- Press release (download PDF file)
- Kick-off meeting with stakeholder organisations and setting up an
European alliance follow-up group (Austria, 21-23/12/2011)
- Preparatory seminar for the preparation of the international
conference (Belgium, 6/09/2012)
- International
conference (Brussels, 8-11 November 2012) Pictures Language Policies
and Legal Action to overcome Language Barriers in education
- Meeting
on the evaluation of the project, on the 2013 activities of the
European alliance follow-up working group, and on the draft final
report (Austria, 15-17/11/2012)
Target group
Education law and policy experts,
members of the school inspectorate in European countries,
representatives from European networks of teachers’ unions, ngo’s
protecting the educational rights of migrants, refugees and asylum
seekers, policymakers, migration experts and advocacy groups
Project Calendar
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21 December 2011
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Participatory kick-off meeting of
the SC
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15 March 2012
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Collection of data
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31 March 2012
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Comparative policy analysis and
recommendations
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30 April 2012
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First interim report
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30 April 2012
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Quality control workshop by the
steering committee
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30 April 2012
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Project website
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19 July 2012
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Editing of the reports
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31 July 2012
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Native English language screening
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29 August 2012
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Pre-press of the publication
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31 August 2012
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Second interim report
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| 31 August 2012 |
Printing of the publication
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| 31 August 2012 |
Printing of the project brochure
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| 31 August 2012 |
Press release for the international
conference
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26 October 2012
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Preparatory activities for the
international conference
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11 November 2012
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International conference and action
plan for the European alliance working group
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| 11 November 2012 |
Internal quality control report
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15 November 2012
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External quality control report
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31 January 2013
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Final report
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