2012
Provision of option to learn mother language other than the majority's
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Austria
Yes, at the level of compulsory schools since 1992-1993.
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Bulgaria
Yes.
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Cyprus
yes
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Denmark
Only children from other EU countries have a right to mother tongue lesson.
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Finland
Yes.
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France
Students from foreign origin can benefit from classes called “Education in Languages and Cultures of Origin".
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Germany
Yes, partly.
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Greece
In the case of children with migrant background, only outside the curriculum thanks to initiative of teachers.
In the case of the oficially recognised Muslim minority in Western Thrace, yes.
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Hungary
Yes.
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Ireland
In a survey assessing schools integration policies, The Economic and Social Research Institute fond that in Ireland:
“More than half of schools mentioned language support teachers, resource teachers, learning support teachers or subject teachers.”
-Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students (2009)
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Italy
Yes
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Poland
Yes.
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Portugal
There is a programme for teaching Portuguese as a second language in the nacional official curricula, but there isn't a provision of option to learn mother language in schools. The four foreign languages included in the curricula are English, French, German and Spanish.
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Romania
Yes, there is the option of learning mother language within the school curricula if the person belongs to one of the 20 national minorities recognized in Romania.
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Slovenia
Two national minorities in Slovenia - Italian and Hungarian - are provided with right to education in mother languages in the regions where the two minoritiesare traditionally settled.
Roma minority and national minorities with origins in other republics of former Yugoslavia in some cases can learn their mother languages within the school curricula as an optional subject. Occasionally the minority associations provide mother language courses.
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Spain
Depends of language.
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Sweden
Yes