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Language debates in Latvia often focus on the role of Latvian as official and main societal language. Yet, Latvian society is highly multilingual, and families with home languages other than Latvian have to choose between different educational trajectories for their children. In this context, this paper discusses the results of two studies which addressed the question of why families with Russian as a home language choose (pre)schools with languages other than Russian as medium of instruction (MOI). The first study analyses family narratives which provide insight into attitudes and practices which lead to the decision to send children to Latvian-MOI institutions. The second study investigates language attitudes and practices by families in the international community of Riga German School.
Methodology:
The paper discusses data gathered during two studies: for the first, semi-structed interviews were conducted with Russian-speaking families who choose Latvian-medium schools for their children. For the second study, a survey was carried out in the community of an international school in Riga, sided by ethnographic observations and interviews with teachers and the school leadership.
Data and analysis:
Interviews and ethnographic observations were subjected to a discourse analysis with a focus on critical events and structures of life trajectory narratives. Survey data were processed following simple statistical analysis and qualitative content analysis.
Findings/conclusions:
Our data reveal that families highly embrace multilingualism and see the development of individual plurilingualism as important for integration into Latvian society as well as for educational and professional opportunities in the multilingual societies of Latvia and Europe. At the same time, multilingualism and multiculturalism, including Russian, are seen as a value in itself. In addition, our studies reflect the bidirectionality of family language policies in interplay with practices in educational institutions: family decisions influence children’s language acquisition at school, but the school also has an impact on the families’ language practices at home. In sum, we argue that educational policies should therefore pay justice to the wishes of families in Latvia to incorporate different language aspects into individual educational trajectories.
Originality:
Language policy is a frequent topic of investigation in the Baltic states. However, there has been a lack in research on family language policy and school choices. In this vein, our paper adds to the understanding of educational choices and language policy processes among Russian-speaking families and the international community in Latvia.
„Deutsch in Europa“ findet sich nicht nur in den mehrheitlich deutschsprachigen Ländern in der Mitte Europas, sondern auch in mehreren direkt an diese angrenzenden Gebieten der Nachbarstaaten. Die Situation des Deutschen ist in diesen Grenzräumen jeweils sehr unterschiedlich, etwa hinsichtlich der Kontaktsprachen, aber auch hinsichtlich der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, der kollektiven und individuellen Mehrsprachigkeit sowie der Einstellungen der Sprecherinnen und Sprecher u.v.m. Der Beitrag skizziert zunächst überblicksartig die aktuellen Situationen einiger deutscher Grenzminderheiten. Fokussiert wird sodann die Situation in Ost- Lothringen. Anhand von neu erhobenen Daten eines laufenden Projekts am IDS wird gezeigt, dass die Konstruktion der sprachlichen Identität in diesem spezifischen Kontext für die Sprecherinnen und Sprechern eine besondere Herausforderung darstellt.
With recourse to a broader understanding of the concept of translation, the transfer of source texts in one variety into another variety of the same language can also be called translation. This paper focuses on the target language – or rather – the target variety “easy-to-read language”, which is meant to make texts comprehensible for people with communication limitations. Considering its origins in the disability rights movement, the aim is to inform affected persons about their rights and democratic processes, i.e. to translate especially legal texts into the so-called easy-to-read language. Although there is a whole range of rules and guidelines for formulating in easy-to-read language, ”none offers a sufficient approach for translation into easy-to-read language“ (Bredel & Maaß, 2016a, p. 109). Standardization of the variety is also still a long way off. On the one hand, the contribution takes stock of legal regulations in easy-to-read language. On the other hand, four versions of the Federal Participation Law in easy-to-read language are analysed with regard to their external features and the constructions used to explain technical terminology. The analysis shows that legal texts in easy-to-read language are (still) quite limited in number and are also difficult to find. Concerning the second part, the constructions used exhibit a great structural variance, both intra- and intertextually. It is therefore questionable whether the addressees can access the texts independently. Also, it is still necessary to make the rules, the formulations of the rules and the implementations clearer so that the translations fulfil their function.
Zeitnah zur großen Fluchtmigration von 2015 hat das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (1DS) gleich zu Beginn des Jahres 2016 das Projekt „Deutsch im Beruf: Die sprachlich-kommunikative Integration von Flüchdingen“ gestartet, um den Migrations-und Integrationsprozess der Geflüchteten von Anfang an dokumentieren und analysieren zu können. In Bezug auf die gegenwärtige Situation der Fluchtmigranten und -migrantinnen sind dabei insbesondere zwei Etappen von großer Bedeutung, die wir in unserem Projekt genauer fokussieren. Für die Integration und Partizipation der Migranten und Migrantinnen spielen zunächst ausreichende Deutschkenntnisse eine große Rolle, die in den mehrmonatigen Integrationskursen vermittelt werden. Hierzu hat das IDS in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut eine zweistufige Sprachstandserhebung (in der Folge IDS-Goethe-Studie) in den allgemeinen Integrationskursen durchgeführt, die die Sprachbiographien, Sozialdaten und die Sprachlernfortschritte der Geflüchteten analysiert, und deren Ergebnisse im vorliegenden Aufsatz präsentiert werden.
Daneben werden im IDS-Projekt u.a. die vielfältigen beruflichen Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit gesprächs- und interaktionsanalytisch untersucht, die für die Geflüchteten oftmals als Einstieg ins Arbeitsleben und somit als eine wichtige Integrationsetappe fungieren (vgl. Cindark; Hünlich 2017, Cindark; Deppermann 2018, Cindark 2018, 2019).