@article{oai:kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010181,
 author = {高橋, 秀彰},
 journal = {関西大学外国語学部紀要 = Journal of foreign language studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Luxembourg has unique characteristics in terms of language policy where three languages
are officially used, viz. Luxembourgish, French and German. All of them are compulsory
subjects at schools and the last two are the languages of instruction. Luxembourgish is the
only national language of Luxembourg standing for its national identity and is a mother
tongue for most Luxembourgers. As French and German are also the official languages
respectively in France and Germany, it is important for Luxembourg to keep the balance
between these languages in order to keep an adequate distance from its big neighbors. This
is the reason that mastering all of the three languages is important for Luxembourgers.
Although learning two languages besides one’s mother tongue is a spirit of the EU language education policy, it is by no means easy to acquire three languages. For Luxembourgers whose mother tongue is Luxembourgish, a Germanic language, it requires much effort to be proficient in French which belongs to the Romanic language family. As Luxembourgish is linguistically very close to German, this is used as a major language of instruction at the first 
stage of the elementary school education, which is arduous for children of the immigrants because most of them are from Romanic countries such as Portugal and Italy. We may recall here that more than 40％ of the pupils at schools are with a Romance language background and they are not familiar with Germanics. This is one of the reasons for their high repetition rate at schools. In this study, after observing some historical and legal background of trilingualism
in Luxembourg, I shall be examining some ideal characteristics of the trilingualism
brought about by political decisions and increasing problems of language education at
schools., 研究論文},
 pages = {59--72},
 title = {岐路に立つルクセンブルクの3言語主義},
 volume = {6},
 year = {2012}
}