Advantages of plurilingualism

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.