The European Union's Language Objectives
To achieve this aim and meet this challenge the EU’s policy objectives are to promote language learning and linguistic diversity within Europe and to complement specific EU programmes by addressing language teaching and learning needs at every stage of a person’s life.
These objectives and needs will be met by
• developing materials for teaching less widely spoken and taught languages,
• building up competence in languages which in turn can reinforce European global competitiveness
• developing methods to motivate language learners
• promoting multilingual comprehension between languages.
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