Immigrant Minority Languages at Home and School
Guus Extra studied applied linguistics and language development in Nijmegen, Stanford and Berkeley. He is director of Babylon, Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society, at Tilburg University, The Netherlands and is Professor of Language and Minorities at the same university. He has been involved in studies on second language acquisition and first language maintenance and shift by immigrant minority groups in The Netherlands and abroad. He has published a variety of books and articles on these topics. Kutlay Yagmur studied English as a second language and applied linguistics in Ankara and Sydney. He investigated language attrition and ethnolinguistic vitality of Turkish communities in Australia and Europe, and has published a number of books and articles on this subject. He worked at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and is presently a senior researcher and lecturer at Babylon, Tilburg University.
1 Introduction Guus Extra & Kutlay Yagmur: Part I Multidisciplinary perspectives 2 Phenomenological perspectives 3 Demographic perspectives 4 Language rights perspectives 5 Educational perspectives Part II Multilingual Cities Project: national and local perspectives 6 Guus Extra, Kutlay Yagmur & Tim Van Der Avoird: Methodological considerations 7 Lilian Nygren-Junkin: Multilingualism in Goeteborg 8 Sabine Buhler-Otten & Sara Furstenau: Multilingualism in Hamburg 9 Rian Aarts, Guus Extra & Kutlay Yagmur: Multilingualism in The Hague 10 Marc Verlot & Kaat Delrue: Multilingualism in Brussels 11 Mehmet-Ali Akinci & Jan Jaap De Ruiter: Multilingualism in Lyon 12 Peter Broeder & Laura Mijares: Multilingualism in Madrid Guus Extra, Kutlay Yagmur & Tim Van Der Avoird: Part III Multilingual Cities Project: crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives 13 Crossnational perspectives on language groups 14 Crosslinguistic perspectives on language groups 15 Crossnational perspectives on community language teaching 16 Conclusions and discussion Appendices