Language learning at pre-primary school level: making it efficient and sustainable a policy handbook
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| 2. B ACKGROUND The Barcelona European Council of March 2002 called for action ‘to improve the mastery of basic skills, in particular by teaching at least two foreign languages from a very early age’ 1 , making this the main objective of EU language education policy. The key role of languages for EU integration has been confirmed by several policy statements in the last few years – The 2006 Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on key competences for lifelong learning highlighted the link between communication indifferent languages and intercultural skills. – The Council Resolution of 2008 on a European strategy for multilingualism 3 stressed the importance of language education from a lifelong learning perspective. Barcelona European Council (15-16 March 2002), Presidency conclusions, http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/71025.pdf 2 Recommendation EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning, OJ L 394 of 30.12.2006, http://eur- lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:394:0010:0018:en:PDF. 3 Council Resolution of 21 November 2008 on a European strategy for multilingualism, OJ C 320, 16/12/2008, p, http://eur- lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:320:0001:01:en:HTML EN 5 EN – The Strategic Framework for European Cooperation in Education and Training ET 2020’) referred to the strengthening of linguistic competences as one of the requirements for achieving high quality, efficient and equitable education systems. – Lastly, the 2010 Communication An agenda for New Skills and Jobs once again identified language skills as a key competence for life 6 Pre-school education in general has been the object of increased attention in recent years with the aim of unlocking children’s potential, in 2009 the EU Education Ministers set a target that by 2020 at least 95 % of children aged between four and the age in which compulsory primary education starts should participate in early childhood education 7 Download 168.07 Kb. Share with your friends:
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