1. THE ABCS OF
PLURILINGUALISM
IN ANDALUCIA
Study visit
Centro de Profesorado
Córdoba, May 2013

2. SOME BASIC DATA
Our foreign
language history.
Where we are.
Who we are.

3. Eight provinces
8.4 million
inhabitants 803.000
inhabitants

4. COUNTRY POPULATION
(MILLIONS)
Sweden 9.6
Austria 8.5
ANDALUCIA 8.4
Bulgaria 7.2
Denmark 5.6
Finland 5.4
Slovakia 5.4
Ireland 4.6
Lithuania 2.9
Slovenia 2.1
Latvia 2.0
Estonia 1.3
Cyprus 0.9
Luxembourg 0.5
Malta 0.4

5. A BIT OF HISTORY...
 1970 Law of Education:
 1 foreign language only, beginning age 11.
 French (losing students)
 English (gaining students)
 1990 Law of Education:
 First foreign language compulsory, begining
age 6.
 Second foreign language, optional, age 12.
 French recovery.

6. A BIT OF HISTORY...
2005

7. WHY PLURILINGUALISM?
Key concept in Applied
Linguistics
Social value in democracies
Historical reality
European language policy

8. PLAN DE FOMENTO DE
PLURILINGÜISMO
PLURILINGUALISM PROMOTION
PLAN
 Bilingual schools (CLIL programs)
 State schools of languages (EOI)
 Plurilingualism and teachers
 Plurilingualism and society
 Plurilingualism and interculturality

9. BILINGUAL SCHOOLS

10. CLIL LANGUAGE IN THE PROGRAM (12/13)
English French German TOTAL
Córdoba
(figures)
92 8 2 102
Córdoba
(percentage)
90,3 % 7,8 % 1,9 % 100 %
Andalucía
(percentage)
92,7 % 6 % 1,3 % 100 %

11. TYPE OF SCHOOL (PUBLIC, 12/13)
Primary
schools
(aged 3-12)
Secondary
schools
(aged 12-18)
TOTAL
Córdoba
(figures)
38 44 82
Córdoba
(percentage)
46 % 54 % 100 %
Andalucía
(percentage)
52 % 48 % 100 %

12. CÓRDOBA SCHOOL DISTRICT (2012-2013)
102 bilingual
schools
( about 25 % of all schools in the district)
(about 10 % of bilingual schools in
Andalucia)

13. BILINGUAL SCHOOLS – CÓRDOBA (2012-2013)
2 +10 (12) +8 (20) +12 (32) +12 (44) +24 (68) +8 (76) +4 (80) +1 +21
(102)
1
(2000-05)
2
(2005-06)
3
(2006-07)
4
(2007-08)
5
(2008-09)
6
(2009-10)
7
(2010-11)
8
(2011-12)
9
(2012-13)
2
12
20
32
44
68
76
80
102
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

14. STATE SCHOOLS OF LANGUAGES (EOI)
 Important growth in the number
of schools across the region
 Important growth in the number
of languages taught.
 Importance of CAL courses.

15. STATE SCHOOLS OF LANGUAGES (EOI)
EOI Córdoba
 German
 Arabic
 French
 English
 Italian
EOI Málaga
 German
 Arabic
 Chinese
 Spanish L2
 French
 Greek
 English
 Italian
 Japanese
 Portugese
 Russian
EOI in province (6)
Córdoba
Lucena
Montoro
Palma del Río
Pozoblanco
Priego de Córdoba

16. ORGANIZATION
•Province coordinator
School
district
•School coordinator
•Language and content
teachers
•Language assistants
Schools
•Teacher training centres
•InspectorsOthers

17.  4416 involved in
bilingual programs
(2011-2012)
 B2 (CEFR)
requirement for
new teachers
 English (1099)
 French (152)
 German (41)
 Italian (8)
 Arabic (7)
 Portugese (1)
 Russian (1)
 Chinese (1)
Teaching Staff 1311 Language
assistants
(2011-2012)

18. STUDENTS
 3000 students (language courses) [2012]
 6000 students (school exchanges) [2012]
 1800 students (summer camps) [2011]

19. CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS
 Integrated curriculum
 Early years (just for bilingual
schools)
 Later years (for every school)
 All schools are expected to have a
language project to develop their
students’ communicative competence
from a plurilingual perspective.

20. INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

21. CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS
 Teaching materials
 Early years (tailor-made)
 Later years
 (tailor-made)
 (printed and on-line
materials)
 (by the Regional Education
Authority)

22. CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS
Teaching materials:
 by the Regional Ministry of
Education.
 For CLIL teachers
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/e
ducacion/webportal/web/aicle
 For language teachers
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/
educacion/webportal/web/pel

23. CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS
Teaching materials by the
Regional Ministry of Education.
 For the school language project
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/ed
ucacion/webportal/web/proyecto-
linguistico-centro/

24. METHODOLOGY
CLIL A dual-focused educational approach in which an
additional language is used for the learning and teaching of
both content and language (Coyle, Hood & Marsh, 2010: 1).
CLIL integrates:
CONTENT (subject matter)
COMMUNICATION (language learning and using)
COGNITION (learning and thinking processes)
CULTURE (developing intercultural understanding
and global citizenship)

25. TRAINING SCHEME
1
•Initial training (multipliers or
direct teaching to language and
CLIL teachers).
2
•In-school follow up.
3
•A wide range of courses,
conferences, meetings, etc.

26. INITIAL TRAINING CONTENT
Plurilingualism
Education policies
Language learning theories
Bilingual education
CLIL
Curriculum design

27. THE ABCS OF
PLURILINGUALISM
IN ANDALUCIA