There
are many advantages of plurilingualism in education and now teachers have the
opportunity to promote the plurilingualism through CLIL lessons.
CLIL
is an integrated form of teaching content and language. In the CLIL methodology
content is analyzed from different cultural perspectives and that offers
opportunities for intercultural learning. Besides, students and teachers work with
projects. This fact lets learners understand the relevance of forms of
collaboration.
The
advantages for children to start with plurilingual programs from an early age,
are:
·
They
learn the different subjects in different languages; this makes them develop metacognitive skills
which are common to all the languages.
·
They
recognize the language learning like a task or ability to develop during their
lives.
·
Their
motivation, their self-confidence and skills rise in order to learn languages
and other cultures.
·
As
regards, children can value and develop positive attitudes towards cultural and
language diversity.
The
society needs plurilingual programs in schools, high schools and University in
order to compete with most advanced societies because we have a global economy.
English and other foreign languages can be a passport to the world, and the key
to a richer professional, personal and cultural life.
To
conclude, I think that all the teachers should be open-minded in order to learn
and teach foreign languages. It is an educational objective because, on the one
hand, it contributes to the education of the student and on the other it
promotes understanding among people and improves relationship among different
cultures.
