Dr.
Vera Barandovska will refer to the language experiments in schools on the basis
of a so-called "language orientation course" which Professor Dr. Helmar
Frank, an expert in cybernetics at the University of Paderborn (D), organised
between 1976 and 1984; publication about this experiment (Sprachorientierungsunterricht,
see also an abstract in Selten, R. (red.)(1997): The costs of european linguistic(non)communication,
Roma, p. 76-79)
Dr.
Detlev Blanke, Berlin (D), is interlinguist and expert in planned languages
Hans
Erasmus is leader of the Study group on the communication and language problem
in the EU co-organiser in 1993 with the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and European Parliamentarians
of a colloquium on the subject "The communication and language problem
in the European Community - To what extent a 'planned language' could contribute
to its solution?"
Dafydd
ap Fergus, Brussel (B), is journalist and specialised on cases of language discrimination
Lorna
Carson, Dublin (E), researcher with the Madariaga European Foundation, is a
linguist interested in language pedagogy, bilingualism, refugees and minority
speech communities and language movements. She has been awarded a prestigious
Ussher Fellowship at the Center for Language and Communication Studies of Trinity
College, Dublin
Dr.
Y.J.D. Peeters is the representative for the International Academy of Language
Law for Europe
Astrid
Thors, member of the European Parliament, specialised in administrative and
public law, municipalities; she has been Vice Chairman of the Swedish People's
Party (1992-2000,Finland), she also used to be elected member of the Swedish
Assembly in Finland, and chair of its specialised board ( Förvaltningsdelegationen)
Professor
Dr. Peter Weber, is member of the network of the Research Centre on Multilingualism
and is teaching in Mannheim (D)