HOME LANGUAGE EDUCATION

EU-ROADMAP

Home Languages
in School

This Roadmap leads to the implementation of the European Language Policy stating that all European citizens can communicate in minimally three languages: the mother tongue or home language, and two other languages. The policy sustains the linguistic diversity across Europe in order to intensify mutual understanding and to celebrate its cultural richness.

National school systems are responsible for mother tongue and foreign language learning. Thus, schools have to embrace the mother tongues of all its pupils, and not only of the ones growing up with the national language. The benefits of multilingualism should radiate on each citizen equally.

New learning models like online, informal and non-formal ones are indispensable alongside the traditional ones to make it happen. Your Language Counts! provides an evidence-based example of such a model. It is adaptable to the needs of national governments, local authorities and schools.

The Roadmap guides you to models of teacher collaboration and school organisation, to juridical and financial procedures, and to the research-based resources and outcomes elaborately presented in the Handbook and on the YLC!-Platform. 

Follow the Roadmap and
integrate home languages into your education system!