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Language Awareness and Minority Languages

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Providing an overview of ideas about as well as practices aiming at the promotion of minority languages at school through fostering pupils’ language awareness, this chapter starts with a sketch of some early developments in the scholarly interest in language awareness related to minority languages. It then deals with some major contributions regarding the role of language awareness in the promotion of minority languages at school in Europe during the last two decades of the twentieth century. The following section tackles a number of issues that color contemporary reflections on language awareness as part of plurilingual education. After a brief discussion of some of the major difficulties and challenges surrounding the interplay between language awareness and minority languages, attention is given to some possible future directions in research on this topic. Throughout this chapter, the focus is almost exclusively on Europe since that is the context the author is most familiar with.

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  • Language awareness
  • Minority languages
  • Europe
  • éveil aux langues
  • Integrated didactics
  • Intercomprehension
  • Content and language integrated learning
  • Plurilingual education
  • Translanguaging

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    Jeroen Darquennes

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  1. Faculty of Education Philosophy and Anthropology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain

    Prof. Jasone Cenoz

  2. Faculty of Education Philosophy and Anthropology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia – San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain

    Durk Gorter

  3. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Prof. Stephen May

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Darquennes, J. (2017). Language Awareness and Minority Languages. In: Cenoz, J., Gorter, D., May, S. (eds) Language Awareness and Multilingualism. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02240-6_19

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