CONTEXT: CLIL AND THE EU

G1469 – AICLE – Prof. Isadora Norman

Context: Europe

1958: European Economic Community (ECC) decides on the official languages:

Dutch French German Italian http://

eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31958R0001:EN:NOT

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1958R0001:20070101:EN:PDFBentley (2010) The TKT Course:

CLIL Module

Context: Europe

1976: ECC publishes joint resolution on linguistic education policy http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:41976X0219:EN:NOT

1978: Proposal to encourage using L2 as a means of instruction

1983: Discussion on the need to improve FL teaching and “promote, encourage and facilitate the teaching of the languages of (ECC) member states.”

1985: As many pupils as possible should learn two foreign languages and take part in exchanges

Context: Europe

1988: Encouragement of FL teaching from an early age and through content

1995: Council of Education Ministers Resolution EU Citizens should “acquire and keep up their ability

to communicate in at least two community languages in addition to their mother tongue”.

Schools should promote innovative teaching methods, including “ the teaching of classes in a foreign language for disciplines other than languages, providing bilingual teaching.”

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31995Y0812(01):EN:HTML

Context: Europe

1998: European Centre for Modern Languages established http://www.ecml.at/

1989-1996: Development of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

2001: Final version of the CEFR is presented http://

www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/cadre1_en.asp 2001: CLIL Compendium Launched

http://www.clilcompendium.com/

Context: Europe

2008: Council Resolution on a European Strategy for Multilingualism “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)”

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:320:0001:01:EN:HTML