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Department of Language
Education and Policy
● Language Policy Division (Strasbourg)
● European Center for Modern Languages
(Graz)
● Charter for Regional and Minority
Languages (Strasbourg)
Council of Europe work in
language policies and
standards
3rd Summit - social cohesion and intercultural
dialogue
Standing Conference of European Ministers of
Education
• access to quality education for all
• concrete measures for inclusive education
• right to education
Language(s) of schooling
• language as a subject
• language across the curriculum
Standards / minimum ‘entitlement’ /
expectations :
• competences (linguistic and semiotic)
• end primary/end compulsory school
The language is more specific, it is embedded into
semantic fields and networks of concepts
- It uses a more formal register and style
- It is more abstract or generalised in word choice
- It is more precise and succinct
- It is more explicit and detailed
- It is more cohesive (explicitly linking ideas, sentences
and parts thereof)
- It is more rationally structured
- It is more coherent or goal-oriented in terms of the
overall structuring of a discourse or text;
- It thus requires more planning, self-monitoring and other
forms of user control
- It leads to basic forms of classroom-scientific discourse
to which all learners are entitled and which are
fundamental prerequisites in order to learn efficiently, in
order to survive school and in order to become a social
agent and participate inside and outside of school as a
democratic citizen.
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European Reference Framework
for Languages of Education
1. main language(s) of schooling
(national, regional/minority languages)
Language as a subject (LS)
Language for teaching other subjects
(LAC)
2. regional/minority + migrant
languages (+varieties)
when NOT languages of schooling
3. Modern foreign languages
(‘foreign’ or bilingual teaching)
European Framework of Reference for
Languages of Education
www.coe.int/lang
Prague Conference
Tools of Reference
• Guide for Language Education Policies in Europe
• CEFR (+ Manual + DVDs..)
• Guide to curriculum planning for plurilingual and
intercultural education
• DVD with samples of oral production in 5 languages
calibrated during an international benchmark event
• European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Language
(EPOSTL)
• ELP generic elements (templates; banks of descriptors)
• Guidelines on language policies for integration of
migrants
• Curriculum Framework for Romani
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Tools of Implementation
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specific European Language Portfolio models
local ELP training (ECML kit + ELP website)
local CEFR linking; training ….
individual Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters
Intercultural Communicative Competence in Teacher
Education (ICCinTE)
• ……………………..
• Language Education Policy Profiles – transversal
New development
• Overarching conceptual framework
concerning all languages in/for
education
• Handbook for languages of
schooling
Websites / Sites internet
Council of Europe / Conseil de
l’Europe
www.coe.int
Language Policy Division
Division des Politiques
linguistiques
www.coe.int/lang
www.coe.int/lang/fr
European Language Portfolio
Portfolio européen des
langues
www.coe.int/portfolio
www.coe.int/portfolio/fr
European Day of Languages
Journée européenne des
langues
www.coe.int/edl
www.coe.int/jel
ECML / CELV
www.ecml.at