From bilingualism to intercultural education. From multilingualism to multicultural education

"For the last few decades Europe has become more multilingual. According to Extra and Yagmur (2008), large European cities and their metropolitan areas are nowadays centres for development of multilingualism. People with different religions and cultures, speakers of several languages are more widely met within European countries than they were 30–40 years ago. However, very few speakers become equally fluent in all languages they may know and use. Children learn languages spoken around them from different people, in different conditions and for a range of differing purposes. They do not use the language input from various languages to the same degree and have different pace of language development. Their languages and proficiency develop on different levels, but mainly in the linguistic categories of vocabulary, morphology, semantics, pragmatics and meta-linguistics (Wei, 1998)." *fragm.