The European Lessons - Presentations

1. Principles and policies for a multilingual Europe
Robert Phillipson will analyse what determines European language policy, and assess strategies for appropriating English without being victimised by it.

2 English as a lingua franca for Europe
Juliane House will present the case for promoting English as Europe's lingua franca by drawing the distinction between a "language for communication" and a "language for identification".

3 Can minority languages survive?
John Walsh will illustrate the link between language, identity and self-esteem, and the changing definition of Europe's language minorities.

4 Teaching English as a lingua franca for Europe
Barbara Seidlhofer will explore what the latest corpus research - the analysis of vast amounts of electronically stored written and spoken text - tells us about English as a lingua franca and the radical changes curricula and methodology may undergo in the near future.

5 Euro-English as it is spoken
Jennifer Jenkins will consider the emergence of a hybrid European accent and illustrate her "pronunciation core" of English when it is spoken internationally.