Minority Languages and Curriculum: The Case of Spain

Autor/in	Huguet, Angel
Titel	Minority Languages and Curriculum: The Case of Spain
Quelle	In: Language, Culture and Curriculum, 20 (2007) 1, S.70-86 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8318
DOI	10.2167/lcc327.0
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Multilingualism; Bilingualism; Bilingual Education; Language Minorities; Second Languages; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Language of Instruction; Geographic Regions; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Bilingualismus; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Sprachminderheit; Second language; Zweitsprache; Minderheitensprache; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Spanien
Abstract	From a legal and institutional point of view, the current situation of the different languages in Spain has a double basis: the fact that the Spanish Constitution acknowledges the country's multilingual and multicultural character, and the country's organisation into Autonomous Communities. Such a constitutional framework has made it possible for bilingual education to develop remarkably during the last 20 years in Spain. The fact that Autonomous Communities have a language of their own with full educational rights has generated an important number of bilingual educational programmes. Apart from the experiences of partial bilingual programmes in other territories, both Catalonia and the Basque Country now organise their education on the basis of fully bilingual criteria. Based on current statistics, the legal basis and social context in which minority languages are taught in schools is examined, the actions undertaken are assessed and some challenges for the future are put forward. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10