Questionnaire survey, content analysis of textbooks used in public education and of the Romanian social media Our latest volume, jointly published by the Bálványos Institute and the Szekler Institute of…
Author: Szilvia
Attitudes and Discourses Related to Romanian Language and Romanian Language Teaching
The issue of the Romanian language skills of Hungarians is constantly in the public discourse; the statement that young Hungarians do not want to learn Romanian is often made by…
Transylvanian Hungarians in the world 2020
Since the 1930s, an important topic of Hungarian public discourse in Transylvania is emigration and economic migration. While before the 1989 revolution the issue was put in a moral context…
Facultative Hungarian language education in Romania
THE COMPLETE BOOK: Keszeg Erika – Toró Tibor: „Örültünk, hogy van egy táblánk, egy krétánk, meg ahova beüljünk…” Fakultatív magyarnyelv-oktatás Erdélyben. Kolozsvár: Bálványos Intézet (2020) Conduction period: February – November…
Romania and language rights in public administration
Conduction period: May 2014 – February 2015Goals of the researchRomania signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 1995 and ratified it in 2008. The obligations assumed entered…
Bilingualism, language rights and linguistic assertiveness in three major cities in Transylvania
Conduction period: march 2019 –Romania has an interesting linguistic regime, since it develops an asymmetrical relationship between majority and minority languages. Dominant language ideologies and the legal framework defines the…