In Switzerland’s political dialogue, an adequate representation of Swiss language communities in the Federal Administration is considered to be a vital expression of multilingualism in Switzerland. Diverse legal bases and directives have been created and issued in the interest of reaching this goal. Nonetheless, questions concerning implementation and effectiveness of these measures remain open...
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(Berichte des Wissenschaftlichen Kompetenzzentrums für Mehrsprachigkeit)
The project “Mapping developmental profiles in early language learning at school” is part of the research programme 2012-2015 of the Research Centre on Multilingualism. The overall objective of the project was to develop adequate instruments to assess language competence and thus contribute to a learning- oriented and computer-assisted assessment culture in foreign language instruction...
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In: Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics, 2018, p. 526-548
This chapter deals with the two Romance languages which are officially recognized as minority languages of Switzerland, Romansh and Italian, and with Francoprovençal and French dialects spoken marginally in the francophone area of Switzerland. Romansh, the language that has gained new recognition in the process leading to the quadrilingual Swiss Confederation, is considered in most detail. The...
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(Bibliographie annuelle de la recherche suisse sur le plurilinguisme ; 7)
The Annual Bibliography of Swiss Research on Multilingualism contains a selection of scholarly publications in the disciplines of linguistics, sociology, pedagogy and other fields related to multilingualism. This issue contains bibliographic information on publications from the year 2017. Includes articles from journals, book chapters, monographs, anthologies and online documents by...
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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
Obwohl in den letzten Jahren verschiedene Studien zur Mehrsprachigkeit in der Bundesverwaltung erschienen sind (Christopher Guerra und Zurbriggen 2013; Coray et al. 2015; Zwicky 2015; Delegierte des Bundes für Mehrsprachigkeit 2015; Kobelt 2016), fehlt bisher ein umfassender Beitrag zur Schlüsselrolle von Mitgliedern des Topkaders und des höheren Kaders im Bereich der...
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2017 was a year marked by beginnings and endings, with several long-serving staff members leaving the Institute for a new professional challenge. From our point of view, it is good news when scholars employed at our Institute – whether for a short time or a longer term – find positions at other higher education institutions to continue their research in Switzerland or, as is often the...
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In: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht
Lexical diversity and sophistication (in term of average corpus frequency) development in the school language (German or French) is investigated longitudinally in a population of Portuguese heritage speakers aged 8 to 10. Results show an improvement in lexical diversity scores but not in lexical sophistication. Differences were found between Portuguese heritage speakers and age matched children...
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