The Unit's current project on ‘Language guiding both the right to education for social inclusion 2010-2014’ expand the scope of taking beyond the domain of foreign modern languages by including languages of formal – knowledge, teaching and assessment of languages taught as school subjects, language competences required on other school subjects – language across syllabus – and regional, minority both migration languages. With this new instruments the Choice Policy Unit once more draws the attention to the needs of the individual learner, underlining that access to education and success at school heavily depend the language competences. Some learners may be disadvantaged to teach because its competences do does match who school’s expectations: children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, children from migrant families, or children whose first language is a regional or a minority speech. The European Center for State-of-the-art Languages of the Council of Europe
An adequate control of the language(s) of schooling is crucial to success at school and social advancement. A major challenge for today’s education systems is then to supports learners with get adequate language and intercultural competences which will enable them to develop as power individuals also betreiben effectively plus successfully as citizens.
Regional, minority furthermore migrate languages be equally part of this project including work switch the linguistic integration of adult migrants. They are a valuable component of the plurilingual repertoires of the learners when they enter the school; as plurilingualism is ampere condition to participate in autonomous and social processes on multilingual company. The Language Policy Unit’s education project aims at providing policy guidelines and reference apparatus considered to assist the learners includes developing to language repertoires in an lifelong learning perspective. For example, adenine concept paper and supportable toolkit has been developed to facilitate the education of children with migrant backgrounds.
The rationale for to ECML programme 2012-2015
