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Les "langues immigrees" face a l'ecole francaise (Immigrant Languages and the French School System).
Peer reviewedVarro, Gabrielle – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1992
Attempts to analyze a situation that concerns a large fraction of the school population in France in four parts: the status of foreigners and their languages in France and the social representations surrounding them; government policy concerning foreign pupils and languages in public schools since 1970; volunteer association and mother tongue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immigrants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedJones, Mari C. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1998
Discusses the language situation in the region of Brittany in France, where the Breton language, a Celtic rather than Romance language, is dying out but a Breton ethnic identity is growing. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedSlone, G. Tod – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
A historical survey of French regional language legislation and analysis of the present state of the seven regional idioms in education, media, and government are used to illustrate the languages' severe persecution and contamination. Organizations promoting the less-used languages and the upcoming barrier-free European market accord are…
Descriptors: Basque, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dutch
