Abstract
Abstract After a section on supplementary mother tongue education for Yugoslav pupils speaking Serbo‐Croatian and some information on Yugoslav migration in Denmark, some preliminary results are presented of a sociolinguistic survey conducted on 50 respondents aged 10–18, attending regular instruction and mother tongue classes in Copenhagen. The research was carried out in eight European countries hosting migrant workers: Austria, Denmark, France, FR Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. The mother tongue of 342 respondents was tested by means of a questionnaire (a total of 25 questions, five for each of the five linguistic levels). The children also wrote a composition ('My School’, ‘My Home’, ‘My Homeland Yugoslavia’, or ‘My New Homeland'). In addition to the linguistic methods of gathering data on their written productions, some sociological and sociolinguistic parameters were applied to examine the communication range of the mother tongue, e.g. the length of their residence a...
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