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- Title
Plurilingualism and multilingualism in Spain.
- Authors
MORENO ALCAUCE, MANUEL
- Abstract
In the last four decades, Spain has experienced deep political, economic and social changes. These changes relate to the reappearance of plurilingual and multicultural communities in relation to Spain's European and world contexts, as well as in response to the increase of non-Spanish-speaking immigrants. This report offers an overview of linguistic policies and languages learning strategies in Spain as the country attempts to keep pace with the expansion of the linguistic and cultural change. It focuses on education and the teaching of languages in Spain, with a special emphasis on the role of the Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas (Official Schools of Languages). The Escuelas Oflciales comprise an extensive network of adult education schools that opened in 1960, and which are the fundamental axis for learning languages and contributing to adult language learning, as well as providing teachers of non-linguistic subjects with certified competence for the bilingual programs in their schools. Today, there are more than 300 Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas in Spain, which teach 23 languages.
- Subjects
MULTILINGUALISM; MULTIDIALECTALISM; LANGUAGE &; languages; MULTILINGUAL education; LANGUAGE policy
- Publication
Babel (00053503), 2016, Vol 51, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0005-3503
- Publication type
Article