Language preservation program
As part of a language conservation program, children from linguistic minorities learn both their first language and the foreign language intensively.
According to the current state of research, this supportive approach from language acquisition research is far better than other language-pedagogical concepts that focus solely or mainly on teaching the standard variety . Nonetheless, language preservation programs (such as transition programs , language bath and controlled language acquisition ) are hardly used in the large immigration countries . These tend to use submersion programs, which focus on the standard variety, and do not further support the language change .
The background to the language preservation programs are, for example, the results of Jim Cummins , which show that poor training in mother tongue lessons up to school entry or in the foreign language during school time can enormously damage the cognitive and linguistic development of the trainees, for example through bilateral bilingualism .
Immigration countries like Sweden and Canada rely on the bilingual transition programs (Latin transire over) and promote bilingualism . Children from linguistic minorities first learn in most or all school subjects in their first language (S1) and at the same time receive intensive remedial courses in the standard variety as a foreign language (S2) (which is mostly a second language, sometimes also a third language). As soon as they have sufficiently acquired the new language, the school language (language of instruction) changes to the standard variety.
Other examples of language preservation programs are the immersion (language bath) programs that are common in New Zealand.
The counter model of the language preservation programs is the submersion program (Latin: sub under, mergere to insert). Here children from linguistic minorities learn predominantly or exclusively the standard variety in school. The minority language is largely ignored in the school concept. Most immigration countries such as the USA and Germany have included submersion programs in their curriculum.
Quotes
- "The system must be found [...] individually [for each individual child]." ( Hans Brügelmann )
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- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 4th, updated and revised edition. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02335-3 .
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