Les mutations de la compétence linguistique au Luxembourg durant la période 1984-2000
Coordinating Institution:
Université du Luxembourg
From: 01/11/2003
To: 31/12/2006
Budget: 100,000.00€
Contact(s):
Fehlen Fernand
Summary
The present research project consists in a socio-linguistic study describing the multilingual reality of Luxembourg and highlighting the evolutions of the last six years.
Some themes:
- What is the relative importance of the three usual languages of the country and of the other languages present
- in Luxembourg’s society (mother tongue of immigrants, English, etc.)?
- Which language is used for which purpose (type of situation)?
- What is the function and status of the language used?
- What is the influence of the geographic variations of Luxembourgish?
Other questions concern language learning and the identity functions of languages.
A particular attention is given to the description of the context of linguistic diversity in which children under 10 evolve.
A survey of a sample of 1,800 persons, with an overrepresentation of parents with children between 3 and 9 was undertaken.
This allowed the FNR project FNR/02/05/12 (Multilingualism in children up to 9 years old) to use the survey as a quantitative background for its qualitative findings.
Field work was done by ILReS at the end of 2004. In the course of 2005, first analyses, relying on cross tables, were presented at three conferences. They were also disseminated to other researchers, for instance to those working on the FNR projects Multilingualism of Children up to 9 Years Old and History, Memory and Identities.
Final results should be published in the fall of 2006.
