Transcript Plurilingualism Promotion Plan

Plurilingualism Promotion Plan
The bilingual schools Programme
Main objective
of the plan
Improve the language skills of Andalusian
people in their mother tongue and provide
them with plurilingual and pluricultural
skills.
Bilingual schools
•Is one of the specific programmes
among five others in the Plan.
•BILINGUAL SCHOOLS
•OFFICIAL SCHOOLS OF LANGUAGES
•PLURILINGUALISM AND TEACHERS
•PLURILINGUALISM AND SOCIETY
•PLURILINGUALISM AND INTERCULTURALITY
•ORGANIZATION
•EVALUATION
•The purpose : To create a network of
400 bilingual schools.
General aims
• Help Andalusian citizens, as citizens of
Europe, to develop the right to acquire
language skills as part of a life-long
process, according to their needs.
• Promote linguistic diversity, since Europe
is a multilingual continent and all the
language have the same value as means
of communication and as the expression
of an identity.
General aims II
• Promote the development of mutual
comprehension since acceptance of cultural
differences depends on the possibility of
learning other languages.
• Foster the idea of democratic citizenship which
recognises the differences and aspires to
equality.
• Encourage social cohesion giving equal
opportunities by the possibility of life-long
language learning
Specific aims
• Linguistic point of view:
• Improve skills in both , the 1st and 2nd language
and later the 3rd.
• Cultural point of view:
• Freedom, tolerance, solidarity and respect will all be
promoted as fundamental values of education
thanks to the contact with other realities.
• Cognitive point of view:
• Language teaching/learning will improve general
learning skills . Pupils are confronted with several
linguistic codes “to do” things , they will develop
greater cognitive flexibility.
What's a bilingual school in
Andalusia?
It is an infant, primary or secondary school
that uses the mother tongue as well as a
foreing languge to teach different subjects
in the curriculum (at least 2 subjects)
More news?
Increase in the number of specialised teachers
• 1st foreign language introduced from the infant stage
• 2nd foreign language from the 3rd cycle Primary education.
A New organisation Model:
Linguistic project defined within the School project.
Coordinator in charge of supervising the elaboration of integrate
curriculum of the language and non language areas.
Coordination of all language departments and non language
subjects
New methodology .
CLIL.
Other measures in the bilingual
programme
• Non classroom teaching
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hours.
Specific training plan
Incorporation of
auxiliary conversation
teachers.
Provision of
technological equipment
to digitalise BS.
Elaboration of a training
plan for parents.
• Agreements with foreign
institutions devoted to
cultural and linguistic
dissemination.
• Support for language
immersion actions in all
the activities of the
school community.
• Recognition of bilingual
schooling through
certification.
CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN
Plurilingualism Promotion Plan
A language policy for Andalusia
Thanks for your
attention. For further
information, visit:
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/
averroes/plurilinguismo/