NPLD-Coppieters Campus 2018

Planning and Evaluation of Language Policies

13th - 15th September 2018, Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy)

The NPLD-Coppieters Campus on Planning and Evaluation of Language Policies aimed to attract civil servants and language policy makers working in the field of Language Policy from several European regions and to offer them state-of-the-art training to study the theoretical, methodological and practical foundations of linguistic policy, linguistic planning and linguistic policy evaluation.

The NPLD-Coppieters Campus 2018 consisted of four parts:

Minority languages and language rights: introduction to the most important international and national legal instruments for the promotion and protection of minority languages;
Sociolinguistics and language planning in education;
Planning, policy analysis and evaluation: designing policies to support minority languages; evaluation methods and techniques (efficiency and fairness); models of language change; costing procedures; indicators, etc.
Political Science: politics and ideology of minority languages; minority languages and modernity; minorities and identity.

Campus programme

Venue of the Campus:
Udin/Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia) ITALY
Palazzo Garzolini di Toppo Wassermann
Via Gemona, 92
Aula T9

Campus - Day 1: Thursday, 13th September 2018

09H00 Official Welcome

Pietro Fontanini, Mayor of Udine

Alberto F. De Toni, Rector of Università di Udine/Universitât dal Friûl

William Cisilino, Director of ARLeF

Massimiliano Fedriga, President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region

Sietske Poepjes, Chair of the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
09H30 PART I: INTRODUCTION

Multilingualism, globalization and linguistic sustainability

Vicent Climent-Ferrando

Presented by Vicent Fenollar
11h30 PART II: MINORITY LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS

Session I: Language Rights

Vesna Crnić-Grotić

Presented by Jarmo Larnio
14H00

Session II: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Sixto Molina

Presented by Lorea Bilbao
16H00 PART III: SOCIOLINGUISTIC FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE PLANNING

Session I: Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Planning: tools and models

Gabriele Iannàccaro

Presented by Cor Van der Meer

Campus - Day 2: Friday, 14th September 2018

09H30 Session II (of PART III): Status planning and acquisition planning

Gabriele Iannàccaro

Presented by William Cisilino
11H30 PART IV: POLICY DESIGN, POLICY ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION

Session I: Language policy as public policy: Designing a programme theory and a policy-to-outcome path

François Grin

Presented by William Cisilino
14H00

Session II: Monitoring language policy: Policy instruments and indicators

Michele Gazzola

Presented by William Cisilino
16H00

Session III: Assessing the costs and the benefits of language policy

François Vaillancourt

Presented by William Cisilino