The development of educational policy positioning on multilingualism in the Federal Republic of Germany - Contradictory approaches towards ‘foreign’ and ‘heritage’ languages

IF 1.6 2区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.linged.2022.101128

Dr. Dita Vogel

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Abstract

Languages are subjects in schools. Schools offer opportunities to learn and develop languages beyond the dominant language of instruction. In Germany, the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) defines the least common denominator in this regard. The article portrays the development of educational policy positioning on teaching of languages as subjects in Germany, using resolutions of the KMK and sketching current implementation in selected states. It is shown that while acknowledging multilingualism as a relevant feature of the population and appreciating it symbolically, teaching of languages as subjects is still dominated by a monolingual ideology. So far, school laws distinguish sharply between obligatory foreign languages relevant for school leaving certificates and heritage languages that can be developed voluntarily outside regular schedules with no or limited relevance. This begs the questions as to whether this divide is still adequate in a multilingual society.

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德意志联邦共和国关于多语制的教育政策定位的发展——对“外国”和“传统”语言的矛盾态度

语言是学校的科目。学校提供学习和发展主要教学语言之外的语言的机会。在德国，教育和文化事务部长常设会议（KMK）在这方面定义了最小公分母。文章利用德国教育和文化事务部长常设会议的决议，描绘了德国将语言作为学科教学的教育政策定位的发展情况，并勾勒了部分州目前的实施情况。文章表明，虽然承认多语言是人口的一个相关特征，并在象征意义上对其表示赞赏，但作为学科的语言教学仍受单一语言意识形态的支配。迄今为止，学校法律将与学校毕业证书相关的必修外语与可在常规课程之外自愿发展的无相关性或相关性有限的遗产语言截然区分开来。这不禁让人怀疑，在一个多语言的社会中，这种区分是否仍然适当。

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期刊介绍： Linguistics and Education encourages submissions that apply theory and method from all areas of linguistics to the study of education. Areas of linguistic study include, but are not limited to: text/corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, functional grammar, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversational analysis, linguistic anthropology/ethnography, language acquisition, language socialization, narrative studies, gesture/ sign /visual forms of communication, cognitive linguistics, literacy studies, language policy, and language ideology.