Linguistic diversity and the advantages of bilingualism and multilingualism in Municipality of Gostivar, Macedonia

Type Journal Article - European Journal of Foreign Language Teaching
Title Linguistic diversity and the advantages of bilingualism and multilingualism in Municipality of Gostivar, Macedonia
Author(s)
Volume 1
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
Page numbers 69-110
URL http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejfl/article/view/338
Abstract
”ilingualism and multilingualism are the speakerȂs ability to speak two or more
languages. This capability is achieved by the individual speakers, where besides the
mother tongue (L1) learners different languages on a parallel basis or gradually,
indifferent times and places, creating different language competence, which
memorializes in his cognitive and uses the self-actualization in the process of
instruction in the language required in compliance with contextual communication
situation.
Linguistic diversity reflected in multicultural social community enables all
individuals to develop bilingualism and multilingualism skills ranging from family
environment with mixed marriages and social environment with formal education
systems, formal and informal education for the achievement of personal and collective
in ward-processing versatile in every aspect of life.
Achievements of the Individual in ward-processing to multilingual speakers
reflected on the enrichment cognitive with different competitive languages, in
developing affective achieving empathic on respecting the principle of multicultural
democratic society toward psychomotor skills development of oral and written
expression in every language, communication towards the provision and acceptance of
different messaging and social terms with the facilitation of providing vital existential
unemployment challenge in the XXI century.
This project aims to clarify scientific theoretical concepts about bilingualism and
multilingualism and with empirical research to illuminate the current state of
bilingualism and multilingualism which is used by the speakers to provide vital
existentiality in everyday life in the city of Gostivar, Republic of Macedonia. In this
research shall use combined questionnaires prepared in advance according to Likertscale and with alternative questions for three groups of bilingual speakers. The survey
will held with employed citizens of three ethnic groups in Gostivar with Albanians,
Macedonians and Turks.

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