Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa: Plurilinguismo in Europa ... - EURAC

N. I. Xirotiris, K. Simitopoulou, E. Styliara
27. What do your parents speak with one another?What do your siblings speak to one another?
Your grandparents? Parents and grandparents? Your relatives? How do you write your text
messages? E-mails?
28. Where did you meet your friends (school, club, home district…)? How do you speak to your
friends? Are there differences according to where you meet your friends (school, club, home
dicstrict…)?
29. Where do you go shopping? How do you speak e.g. in a supermarket? At the bakery? In an
offi ce? At the post offi ce? At the bank?...
30. Where do you go out with your friends at night? Pubs? Youth clubs?...
31. How do you speak there?
32. Do you think it is important that you are able to speak this language? Why?
33. Does one language seem more important to you than another?
34. Why do you regard certain languages important for our region and others not that much?
(insist: they say this language is important for…?)
35. Which language(s) would you like to start learning? Why?
Language and education
36. Do you like going to school?
37. What is your favourite subject?
38. What qualities does a good student have? Is he/she according to you better in languages,
science or maths?
39. Would you prefer more language classes?
40. Would you like to have different subjects in different languages?
41. In which subjects do your teachers expect high performance from you?
42. According to you a good teacher is someone who…
Arrange the languages according to their importance
(Languages chosen according to relevance)
43. Why did you arrange them like this?
(e.g. for Europe they are important; one is particularly nice; important for myself…)
44. Some people say that children who grow up with more than one languages will not be able
to speak any of them correctly. What do you think about this?
45. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of growing up with different
languages?
Second part: relevant for single languages
(This part of the interview should be done with each language separately)
Description of relevant languages
46. What is language x for you?
First language/native language
Neighboring language
(Living) Foreign language
Second language
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