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it focuses on the development of European dimension and of an active citizenship able to communicate and to interact through plurilingual comptences
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EU citizens should have competence in their mother tongue plus two Community foreign languages. «It could even be argued that secondary school pupils should study certain subjects in the first foreign language learned"
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It highlighs the central importance of promoting linguistic diversity and increased language learning
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The European Council calls for further action to improve the mastery of basic skills, in particular by teaching at least two foreign
languages from a very early age -
Language Policy Division
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the Commission concluded that major efforts are required to:
- make sure that everyone can speak two languages as well as their mother tongue;
- improve the quality of language teaching, from kindergarten through to adult education -
Experts identified a need for national plans to give coherence and direction to actions to promote multilingualism amongst individuals and in society generally. They should include:
- Better teacher training
- Early language learning
- Content and language integrated learning
- Languages in higher education
- Developing the academic field of multilingualism
- European Indicator of Language Competence -
The Commission proposes to award projects involving prospective teachers as well as in-service teachers who, at any level of education, teach a language subject, or teach languages through CLIL or other informal methods
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It was established by Decision No.1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and was designed to enable people, at any stage of their life, to take part in stimulating learning experiences, as well as developing education and training across Europe.
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It invites the member states to devote particular attention to the further training of language teachers and to enhancing the language competences of teachers in general, in order to promote the teaching of non-linguistic subjects in foreign languages
(CLIL — Content and Language Integrated Learning); -
it provides a set of principles and ideas for designing curricula for professional teacher development in the area of content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
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It is a project aimed at the secondary high school curriculum. It has been developed within the memorandum of understanding between Eni and the Italian Ministry of Education and complies with the requirements envisioned in the “digital school” policy, in a web 2.0 context, in accordance with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) focused on the integrated learning of the English language and four scientific subjects: physics, chemistry, biology and geoscience
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