Young people play an integral part to continuing linguistic diversity in Europe and beyond.
However, despite the large investments in language learning both in the school and at home in many regional, minority, indigenous and smaller state languages communities, many adolescents do not go on to use their acquired language skills in everyday adult life. The reasons for this remain unclear.
Consequently, the NPLD has conducted a comparative study on the situation in numerous language communities in order to discover ways to overcome this barrier and to suggest ways in which the actual use of learned languages may be encouraged amongst the 11-19 age range. The work focussed on both the barriers to achievement and positive motivation to competent bilingualism - and onward to multilingualism.
Participants in the project included partners from Estonia, Ireland, Scotland, Occitan, Sweden and Wales. The results of each community's research study is availalbe by clicking the links on the left hand side.
The final report compiling all the individual findings from each community is available by clicking on the link below.
For further information on participants and partners, please contact post@npld.eu