LANGUAGE EDUCATION

IN EUSKADI

(TRILINGUAL EDUCATION in the

Autonomous Community of the Basque

Country in Northern Spain)

Laly Alonso Nieto (1/04/2013)

languageducation-imc.blogspot.com

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Spanish 17

Autonomous

Communities

EUSKADI

BILBAO

SPANISH

EDUCATION

SYSTEM

http://www.mecd.gob.es/educacion-mecd/en/

http://www.slideshare.net/adoracion.p.p/spanis-heducation-systemcomenius-copia

http://www.slideshare.net/pacobati/spanish-educational-system

EUSKALHERRIA

45% curricular matters decided by Basque Government

27% Basque speakers

0% monolingual Basque speakers

English (L3) from 4 (N3), 2nd FL (French, L4) from 13 (S1)

EUSKADI

> 40% Spanish people live in bilingual

communities (Catalan/Valencian/Balear,

Galician, Basque) http://www.cervantes.es/lengua_y_ensenanza/enlaces_interes.ht

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Normalization

- Standard, unified language

- EDUCATION

- MASS MEDIA

- GOVERNMENT / ADMINISTRATION

EUSKARA: THE BASQUE LANGUAGE

Minority language

Non Indo-European

Origin?

5000 years old

1936-60: prohibited

1960-76: tolerated

1978: Spanish Democratic

Constitution

1979: Basque Autonomy

Statute

1982: Law of Normalization

of the Basque language

co-official

http://www.slideshare.net/akashag11111/recomendar-una-estrategia

http://www.slideshare.net/cusc/d-gorter-minority-languages-in-the-linguistic-landscape-basque-and-frisian

BASQUE EDUCATION SYSTEM

90% of 2 year olds / 100%

of 3 year olds

50% public, 40 % funded,

10% private schools

From 1982: 3 linguistic

models: A, B & D

(super) immersion

BILINGUAL: Spanish and

Basque

Inclusive, co-educational

education, HIGH EQUITY,

competence-based

TEACHER TRAINNING

& ADULT LITERACY

BASQUE & FOREIGN

- IRALE

- GARATU

- EOI

- Berritzegune (Innovation

centres)

-AEK, HABE

- Community Education

INTEGRATED language

curriculum

http://www.slideshare.net/lechristie/linguistic-models

http://www.slideshare.net/josu_sierra/the-basque-education-system-145125

http://www.slideshare.net/josu_sierra/assessment-and-basque-educational-system

http://www.slideshare.net/agirregabiria/infant-education-basque-country

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN

COMPULSORY EDUCATION

1988: from P6 to P3

1996-2000: Early Multilingualism Projects (from 4 year old) 20 schools

Goal: language learning not only awareness (Topic-based, functional)

1999: gradual extension

2000: INEBI (P3)(content-based, functional)

2003-05: BHINEBI (S1) (project-based, functional)

2008-09: Plurilingual Project (S + Bac) (English-medium teaching other subjects, CLIL)

2011-14: HMH/MET Trilingual Education Framework (CLIL) 40 schools

LUIS BRIÑAS-SANTUTXU HLHI

Urban, working class, public, 650 sts, 50 + 5 Ts, Nursery+Primary

(Super-) Immersion model: D

HMH

HNP (Linguistic project)

Comenius (Multilateral)

Language Assistants (Comenius, Leonardo)

http://www.slideshare.net/auldreikie/language-education-in-the-basque-

country-2000

http://www.slideshare.net/CristinaAlainez/multilingual-programs-in-basque-

country-and-navarre

http://www.slideshare.net/jasonealdekoa/basque-experience-dublin2011-caer

HMH/MET

TRILINGUAL EDUCATION FRAMEWORK

2011-14

40 schools

CLIL

English (2.5 h) +

English-medium teaching of other

subjects (up to 7 h): Science, Arts

& Crafts…

Current teachers (trainning)

Evaluation (yearly)

Goal: Integrated curriculum of all 3

languages

http://www.isei-ivei.net/eng/pubeng/pubengin.htm

http://www.isei-ivei.net/cast/fondo/indexfon3.htm

http://www.hezkuntza.ejgv.euskadi.net/r43-2459/es/contenidos/informacion/dig3/es_2085/g3_c.html

http://www.hezkuntza.ejgv.euskadi.net/r43-

2459/es/contenidos/informacion/dig_publicaciones_innovacion/es_lenguas/lenguas.html