THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICY.
Key Documents
The basis for language education policies
These instruments and recommendations provide the legal and political basis for language education policies at all levels which not only facilitate the acquisition of a repertoire of language varieties – linguistic diversity for the plurilingual individual – but also seek to ensure that attention is paid to diversification of the options for language learning. There is a need to encourage and facilitate the learning of a wide range of languages, not only those which have been dominant in language teaching traditions, and not only English, for which there is currently an overwhelming demand.
Particular attention is drawn to Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)5 on languages of schooling because most previous documents have focused mainly on modern/foreign languages. It is necessary to include national/official languages in language education policies because they are part of the linguistic repertoire of individuals when these languages are the language(s) of schooling/instruction. In the third part of the Guide for the Development of Language Education Policies in Europe, options for the implementation of policies include the teaching and learning of national/official languages, which for many but by no means all individuals are their mother tongue/ first language.
A – Conventions
B – Policy Recommendations and Resolutions
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)5 to member States on the importance of competences in the language(s) of schooling for equity and quality in education and for educational success
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)13E to member States on ensuring quality education
- Recommendation R (2008)7 on The use of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the promotion of plurilingualism
- Recommendation R (98) 6 based on the results of the CDCC Project ‘Language Learning for European Citizenship’ (1989 – 1996)
- Recommendation R (82)18 based on the results of the CDCC Project N° 4 (‘Modern Languages 1971-1981’)
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
www.assembly.coe.int (Recommendations are addressed to the Committee of Ministers)
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)5 to member States on the importance of competences in the language(s) of schooling for equity and quality in education and for educational success
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)13E to member States on ensuring quality education
- Recommendation R (2008)7 on The use of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the promotion of plurilingualism
- Recommendation R (98) 6 based on the results of the CDCC Project ‘Language Learning for European Citizenship’ (1989 – 1996)
- Recommendation R (82)18 based on the results of the CDCC Project N° 4 (‘Modern Languages 1971-1981’)
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
www.assembly.coe.int (Recommendations are addressed to the Committee of Ministers)
- Recommendation 2034 (2014) on Integration tests: helping or hindering integration?
- Recommendation 1740 (2006) on The place of the mother tongue in school education
- Recommendation 1598 (2003) on the protection of Sign languages in the member states of the Council of Europe
- Recommendation 1539 (2001) on the European Year of Languages 2001 o
- Recommendation 1383 (1998) on Linguistic Diversification (CM(99)97)
Standing Conference of European
Ministers of Education
- Resolution on the European Language Portfolio adopted at the 20th Session of the Standing Conference (Krakow, Poland, October 2000) 68