Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the results of a small-scale pilot study of attitudes towards Polish and English conducted at a Polish supplementary school in Manchester, England. The intro-ductory part of the paper presents definitions of bilingualism and bilingual education as well as a variety of approaches and policies concerning bilingual education in the world. This is followed by some basic data on Polish immigrants living in the UK and Polish supplementary schools in the UK. The questionnaire used to elicit the data consists of two sets of questions: one concerns Polish and the other English. The questions and the answers elicited are discussed and compared, with the final concluding part focused on attitudes to Polish, which is the native language of the informants’ families.
Highlights
The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the results of a smallscale pilot study of attitudes towards Polish and English conducted at a Polish supplementary school in Manchester, England
That the country’s immigration policy is further complicated by the prospect of Brexit, we find it important to study speakers’ attitudes towards the use of minority languages in education across the UK
Bilingualism and multilingualism have posed a challenge to education which has been dealt with in various ways
Summary
The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the results of a smallscale pilot study of attitudes towards Polish and English conducted at a Polish supplementary school in Manchester, England. The Kurdish Human Rights Project, in its briefing paper of July 2011, describes the restricted language learning opportunities that speakers of Kurdish have, including the fact that Turkey allows Kurdish courses for adults but no schools or courses with Kurdish as the medium of instruction. This discrimination is enforced by Turkish law: in 2011 two students who had protested about the ban on minority language education were sentenced to over ten years in prison. Iraq appears to be the only country where instruction in Kurdish is permitted and available albeit insufficiently financed, so that few Kurdish children have access to their mother tongue at school (KHRP July 2011: 14-17)
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