Review article

LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING IN QUADRILINGUAL SWITZERLAND

Jürg STRÄSSLER

Abstract

Foreign language learning in quadrilingual Switzerland is largely
dependent on the linguist situation in the four different regions.
Therefore the linguistic landscape of Switzerland is presented in
the first section, especially with reference to the German and the
Romansh-speaking parts. Section 2 gives an outline of foreign
language learning in the compulsory educational system as it
now presents itself after the implementation of the 1975 reform.
In section 3 we find some reasons why the results of the improved
structural and didactic-methodological approaches are far from
promising, which led the Board of Educational Ministers to have
an overall language concept developed, which is outlined in the
final section. It is hoped that this new approach will turn Switzerland
into a multilingual country of multilingual speakers.

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Hrčak ID:

19875

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/19875

Publication date:

31.12.2001.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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