Brussels, 18/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - Thursday last, the European Parliament adopted the own-initiative report by Miguel Portas (GUE/NGL, Portugal) calling for language learning to be promoted as a method of integrating immigrants into the EU. Immigrant children of school age are entitled to public education including tuition in the host country's language but also of their mother tongue, the Parliament states. The report recommends setting up pedagogical support measures in primary and secondary schools for immigrant children especially when these children do not master the language of the host country. Member States are invited to encourage measures - within teaching establishments at various levels - to ensure linguistic diversity without such teaching being restricted to the most frequently encountered languages. They are to remove the pedagogical, administrative and legal obstacles to this diversity. Approving the idea of learning two languages in addition to their mother tongue at an early age, MEPs call on the Commission to step up support for the specific training of teachers from immigrants' countries of origin. They also recommend encouraging integration of immigrants that are not at school age, via educational and specific programmes.