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... Plurilingual and pluricultural awareness of European citizens is regarded to be a vital objective of European policy as it enhances mutual understanding and social cohesion, as shown in various documents (Recommendation R (98), 6 "Linguistic diversification" 1998, Recommendation 1539, 2001; Recommen-dation of The European Parliament and of the Council of December 2006) and language policy guidelines (Beacco & Byram 2007). It is defined as "the ability to use languages for communication and to take part in intercultural interaction, where a person, viewed as a social agent, has proficiency of varying degrees, in several languages, and experience of several cultures" (Council of Europe 2001: 168). ...