Review article
Striving for Achievement of the Europen Communication Scope
Dubravka Papa
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta Josip Juraj Strossmayer u Osijeku, Osijek, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper deals with a chronological review of decisions and measures taken by the European union within language education as well as with a comprehensive survey of real linguistic competences in Europe and a critical review of the European communication scope model. It is clear that with these three reviews we enter both an educational policy area and linguistics that could be burdened by an aggravated political dialogue and science. Wenn politics mostly does not consult linguists in these matters but largely didacticians, psychologists and sociologists as well as administrative services of educational institutions and leaves evaluations to advisory centres for entrepreneurship, then it is surely linguistics to blame for the habit of reducing a notion of ‘’language’’ with restraint as its research subject. The European variety manifests itself clearly in language affluence. If the citizens wish to benefit from this variety, they have to be able to communicate among themselves. Since the knowledge of languages belongs to fundamental skills essential for the European union as the knowledge society, the Council of Europe gives considerable importance to encourage multilingualism in learning foreign lanugages.
Keywords
the European union; the European communication scope; language affluence; communication; knowledge society; multilingualism; plurilingualism
Hrčak ID:
33986
URI
Publication date:
20.2.2009.
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