Trends in European Language Policies with a View to Language Technology

The so-called language gap is not a modern invention, since language is power and a form of taking dominion over the world in humans' intellectual confrontation with reality. Historically, there has been inequality in language learning and mastery as a way to access knowledge and to achieve self-fulfillment in both the public and private spheres. This chapter explores the concept of language gap from a diachronic perspective and the way in which the Andalusian education system has taken actions emanating from European language policies, aimed at bridging the language gap among young people through initiatives of great impact on content and language education, such as the consolidation of bilingual education programmes through the CLIL approach and pedagogical tools like the Integrated Language Curriculum, the European Language Portfolio, and the School Language Project.

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European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community

10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-demos.26 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Georg Rehm ◽

Stelios Piperidis ◽

Kalina Bontcheva ◽

Jan Hajic ◽

Victoria Arranz ◽

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Keyword(s):

European Language ◽

Language Technology

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Limited pidgin-type patois? Policy, language, technology, identity and the experience of Canto-pop in Singapore

Popular Music ◽

10.1017/s0261143003003131 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 217-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Liew Kai Khiun

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Chinese Population ◽

Nation State ◽

Language Policies ◽

Ethnic Chinese ◽

Language Technology ◽

Cultural Boundaries ◽

Regional Music

This article explores the interactions and tensions arising from a vibrant Canto-pop industry exported from Hong Kong to an interventionist nation-state of Singapore bent on discouraging the use of dialects by its ethnic Chinese population. Aside from highlighting the roles of technological and commercial factors behind the regional music networks, it seeks further to position this contemporary relationship within the larger historical and cultural context. The cultural politics involved here is not just an isolated phenomenon between two different cities. More importantly, the language policies of the Singapore government represent a haunting replication of the perennial attempts by central authorities in China to impose a more standardised linguistic and cultural identity on its dialect-speaking peripheries. This identity is based on not just the court language of Mandarin, but notions of ‘Chineseness’. This article goes on to question the extent to which Canto-pop could help foster a more hybridised identity transcending both the current dictates of the modern Singaporean state and the imagined cultural boundaries of a more historically entrenched Sino-centric realm.

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CLIL, Bilingual Education, and Pluriliteracies

10.4018/978-1-6684-3690-5.ch075 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1503-1515

Author(s):

Leonor María Martínez Serrano

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Bilingual Education ◽

Language Education ◽

European Language ◽

Pedagogical Tools ◽

Public And Private ◽

Language Curriculum ◽

The Public ◽

The World ◽

European Language Policies

The so-called language gap is not a modern invention, since language is power and a form of taking dominion over the world in humans' intellectual confrontation with reality. Historically, there has been inequality in language learning and mastery as a way to access knowledge and to achieve self-fulfillment in both the public and private spheres. This chapter explores the concept of language gap from a diachronic perspective and the way in which the Andalusian education system has taken actions emanating from European language policies, aimed at bridging the language gap among young people through initiatives of great impact on content and language education, such as the consolidation of bilingual education programmes through the CLIL approach and pedagogical tools like the Integrated Language Curriculum, the European Language Portfolio, and the School Language Project.

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