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Analyses the strengths and weaknesses of current language education policy
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Guide for the Development of Language Education Policies in EuropeLanguage Policy Division
Explains the principles and recommendations of the Council of Europe
Analyses the strengths and weaknesses of current language education policy
Provides a tool for identifying and examining the relevant factors
Describes a range of technical forms of organisation of language education
o Reduce ad hoc decisions
o Promote a ‘global concept’ for languages
o Stimulate a democratic debate
o Ascertain a long-term investment
Plurilingualism
the ability to use several languages to varying levels of proficiency for different purposes
Multilingualism
The presence of languages in a given territory
To make everyone aware of and value the nature of their linguistic and cultural repertoire
For everyone to develop and improve their linguistic repertoire
To do so through autonomous acquisition
Head teachers
Aware of own opinions
Have an understanding of issues
Head teachers
Responsible for language policy
Develop strategiesSeek resourcesTake part in wider decision
making arenas, inc. political
Part OneLanguage Education Policies
1. Outlines general policies in Europe
2. Explains plurilingualism as a fundamental principle
Part TwoData and Methods
3. Social factors in decision-making3. Linguistic factors in
decision-making
Part ThreeOrganisational forms of plurilingual education
5. Creating a culture of plurilingualism
6. Organising plurilingual education
Transversal competence
Linking the teaching of different languages to one another
Vertical
Across the different levels of education
Horizontal
Finding common core language content
Diagonal
Finding new ways of organising language education
e.g. modular
Less a matter of deciding which and how many foreign languages should be taught…than of directing the goals of language education towards the acquisition of a (plurilingual) competence
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