Publications

Publication details [#30468]

Breidbach, Stephan. 2002. European Communicative Integration: The Function of Foreign Language Teaching for the Development of a European Public Sphere. Language, Culture and Curriculum 15 (3) : 273–283.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | integrationism | language of wider communication | language use | linguistics

Language as a subject

English | Languages, European

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

European language teaching has to accept the paradox of support for diversity and the drive for integration in the development of nation states and in the emergence of a new European space. The wide use of English points towards increasing linguistic unification whereas multilingual education is promoted to support diversity.