The English language within Young People's Media Environments

The project touches on several questions that are relevant to media and communication science: what meaning will future foreign-language media products have? How do media contribute to intercultural communication? And how are specific media environments constituted that adolescents from different cultural environments surround themselves with? At the same time, this projects aims to conduct a European comparative study.

A jointly developed questionnaire was used for several surveys in Hamburg, Nijmegen, Liège and an outskirt of Brussels, which allows comparative statements on the role of the English language in the everyday life of young Europeans.

In Hamburg, the survey was carried out in the summer of 1999, a joint report of the participating partners was finished in 2003 and should be published in 2004.