Lingua Receptiva

For the column “Collegetoer” of the digital University Utrecht magazine DUB a lingua receptiva lecture was attended in January 2017. Read the article here.

On  May 3rd, 2014 a column written by Leonie Cornips on border languages in Limburg appeared in the regional newspaper the Limburger. Lingua receptiva plays an inmportant role amongst Dutch youngsters regarding the contacts they have in Germany. Read the column here. The column is based on the thesis that Lonne Snijkers wrote on  cross-border communication in Limburg at Utrecht University. Read the entire thesis hier  een samenvatting en here .

On November 15th, 2013 the Language Centre of Tilburg University celebrated her 40 year jubilee with a conference on  Language policy in higher education. As a result of the plenary talk of Jan ten Thije titled Lingua receptiva in Academia various blogs appeared in the Tilburger university magazine Univers Online. Read the blogs here and here.

In the science section of the NRC Handelsblad (Dutch newspaper) an article with an overview of lingua receptiva appeared on June 15th, 2013 written by Liesbeth Koenen. Read the article here.

On Kennislink, a website on science, Mathilde Jansen wrote an article on the workshop and premiere of the Lingua receptiva documentary. You can read the article here.

Honours students of Utrecht University give wonderful insights in the practice of lingua receptiva in the short Lingua receptiva documentary.  Watch the  here. The Utrecht University magazine reports on their movie on May 28th, 2013. Read the here.

Leonie Cornips (May 11th, 2013) wrote a column on lingua receptiva in the regional newspaper Limburgs Dagblad/De Limburger  in which she introduces the Dutch term  “luistertalen” for the use of “luistertaal” (i.e. lingua receptiva). ‘luistertalen’ voor het gebruiken van luistertaal. Read her column here.

In November 2012 the Taalcanon appeared at the Dutch Publishing house Meulenhof, with fifty sections on ‘everything you always wanted to know about language’ (red. Marianne Boogaard and Mathilde Jansen). One of these sections concerns the question: ‘Could you understand a language without speaking it yourself? On lingua receptiva and receptive multilingualism’. Read the here.

In 2012 Simone van Klaveren created a Dutch Wikipedia page on lingua receptiva. View the  here 

On October  26th, 2012 the Flamish VRT held her fifth Language day (“Taaldag”) in cooperation with the Dutch Taalunie. The use of lingua receptiva is being discussed on the basis of three different cooking sections: hilarious and informative. View them here.

Het Taalschrift – the digital magazine of the Dutch Taalunie – also paid attention to this concept. Honours students from Utrecht wrote various articles. Read the article on the history of development and the practices of lingua receptiva.. At the bottom of this article you can also find a trailer on lingua receptiva. You can watch this trailerhere . In addition, the Taalschrift offers a article that compares the practices of lingua receptiva with those of English as lingua franca.

As well in other ways attention has been paid to the rise of lingua receptiva: the Dutch NCRV radio programme Cappuccino, for instance, invited Jan ten Thije on August 16th, 2012 for exemplification. The broadcast can be replayed here  (the item starts at 1:39:53).