Spanish legal framework of plurilingualism in non-university teaching

Abstract

Abstract:
Until the present, idiomatic models of education have distinguished between linguistical choice or conjunction, whether it was possible to choose the language which would occupy a central space at school or not. Nevertheless, the teaching of foreign languages in the educational schemes of several Spanish regional governments, not only as a subject but also as a way of study non linguistic areas, requires new patterns that include the languages in which education is offered, in particular, monolingualism, bilingualism and plurilingualism.

Knowing all these varieties, and using the European Commission´s common vocabulary, the authors propose a new classification for the linguistic models held by the Spanish regional governments with two equally recognized languages. Regarding the Constitutional Court case-law and other jurisprudence, they also point the limits and advocate for content and language integrated learning (CLIL).