Presentation "Language learning spaces: diversity and transversality" (EU LLP CEDEFOB), April 2013 by Neus Lorenzo for the Study-Visit "Language learning spaces: diversity and transversality" http://blocs.xtec.cat/cataloniastudyvisit2013languagelearning/

1. Language diversity is
a human beings’ treasure:
It enriches thinking, creating
and understanding the world.
Sam Francis

2. Language learning spaces:
diversity and transversality
Educational Policies
to develop the Social Dimension of Language Learning
Catalonia, April 2013
@NewsNeus
nlorenzo@xtec.cat
Maria Neus Lorenzo i Galés
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3. Content
Where?
Short introduction: the Catalan education system
What?
Exploring concepts and tendencies
Why?
Reflecting on present and future with some data
How?
Interaction for collective knowledge building
… and then what?
Questions and Starting point

4. Where?
Why?
What? How?
History doesn’t happen to us...
We actively build it everyday!

5. Catalonia, a Mediterranean region
with a long history.
Expansion: XIV-XV century
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj49/Stirpes_Net/mapas/CatalanEmpire.jpg

6. Languages of Europe (Wikipedia)
Gascon
Occitan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe

7. An autonomous territory with
7.565.603 inhabitants (2012)
Ref: http://www.gencat.cat/catalunya/cat/ Population density: 231,5 inhab/km2 (2011)

8. Educational context:
Postwar language policy at school:
1939-1978 1939-1978
SPANISH
Monolingual
School subject school
Latin Greek French
Bilingual society
Democracy: new language policy at school
1980’s-2000
Bilingual
Calo (Roman)
CATALAN school
SPANISH School subject
ENGLISH Bilingual society
FRENCH, GERM. ITAL.

9. Looking for an educational system
Several monolingual societies ? One plurilingual society?

10. PRESENT: Immigration 2000 - 2013
Present language policy at school
CATALAN
Plurilingual
SPANISH school
ENGLISH
FRENCH GERMAN ITALIAN
IMMIGRATION LANGUAGES
SPANISH CATALAN ENGLISH
Intercultural society

11. The new Catalan generation:
merging students from immigrant families
Marroc 29.561
Equador 14.073
Romania 6.329
Bolívia 5.962
Colòmbia 5.806
Argentina 5.159
Xina 3.788
Perú 3.371
Gàmbia 2.720
Rep. Dominicana 2.502
Uruguai 2.491
Pakistan 1.933
Xile 1.931 Origen country of newly arrived students
Brasil 1.847
Rússia 1.519
Ucraïna 1.377
Itàlia 1.216
Regne Unit 1.102
Veneçuela 981
Bulgària 931
0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000
From: Servei d’Immersoó i Ús de la llengua, 2008-09

12. Catalan challenges today
Learning
to live together
Identity • 10M speakers in 4 countries
- self-recognitions (Spain, Andorra, Italy, France)
- participation • Local identity in Globalization processes
- leadership
- vision of the future • From Bilingualism to Plurilingualism
- dealing with diversity • Intercultural dialogue

13. Where?
Why?
What? How?

14. The Catalan Education System
Education System Structure
Age
University
UEE HGVET Vocational training
Bacalaureate MG VET Vocational training SGP- Social Adaptation
Secondary Education
Primary Education
95,5 %
Pre-school Education
Non-Compulsory Education Compulsory Education
MGVET- Medium Grade Vocational Education and Training SGP- Social Guarantee Programme
HGVET- Higher Grade Vocational Education and Training UEE- University Entrance Examination

16. Chart D1.2a. Ins truction tim e pe r s ubje ct as a pe rce ntage of total com puls ory ins truction tim e for 9-11 ye ar-olds (2007)
Percentage of intended instruction time devoted to various sub ject areas within the total compulsory curriculum
Reading , writ ing and lit erat ure M at hemat ics Science
M o dern f oreign lang uag es Ot her compulsory core curriculum Co mpulso ry f lexible curriculum
100%
80%
60%
Languages
Science
40% Maths
20%
Reading...
Russian Federation
Czech Republic2
Luxembourg3
Netherlands1
Belgium (Fl.)
Denmark
Germany
Portugal4
0%
Hungary
England
Slovenia
Greece
Estonia
Turkey
Australia
France
Mexico
Finland
Iceland
Ireland
Japan
Sweden
Norway
Israel
Austria
Korea
Spain
Chile
1. Includes 11-year-olds only.
2. For 9-10 year-olds, social studies is included in science.
3. German as a language of instruction is included in "Reading, w riting and literature" in addition to the mother tongue Luxemburgish.
4. Includes 10-11 year-old
Ref: http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_1,00.html

17. Reading, writ ing and lit erat ure M at hemat ics Science
M odern f oreign languages Ot her compulsory core curriculum Compulsory f lexible curriculum
100%
80%
60%
Languages
40%
Science
Version 1 - Last updated: 19-Aug-2009
Chart D1.2b. Instruction tim e per subject as a percentage of total com pulsory instruction tim e for 12-14 year-olds (2007)
Maths Percentage of intended instruction time devoted to various subject areas within the total compulsory curriculum
20%
Reading...
Russian Federation
Czech Republic
Belgium (Fr.)3
Luxembourg2
Belgium (Fl.)
0%
Denmark
Germany
Portugal
England
Ireland1
Hungary
Slovenia
Greece
Turkey
Estonia
France
Mexico
Iceland
Finland
Australia
Japan
Israel
Sweden
Norway
Italy3
Austria
Korea
Chile
Spain
1. For 13-14 year-olds, arts is included in non-compulsory curriculum.
2. German as a language of instruction is included in "Reading, w riting and literature" in addition to the mother tongue Luxemburgish.
3. Includes 12-13 year-olds only.
Countries are r
Ref: http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_1,00.html

18. Catalan educational policies focus on…
Competencies:
Providing citizens in new
generations with the necessary
competencies for employability,
sustainability and flexibility to face
future unexpected challenges.
Inclusion:
Consolidating social cohesion
with inclusive education, and
enriching citizenship in diversity.
ESPRONCEDA School

19. Community building: intercultural dialogue
Inner frontiers are the ones
that really separate us
Dealing with diversity
for
empowering rights and duties
reading, speaking, writing, listening, interacting
communicating in many languages
sharing, negotiating, networking, bridging the gap

20. Communication skill is plurilingual
interculturality
enterpreneurship
collaboration
working
participation
learning
implicatiom
interaction
conviventiality

21. Catalan society: the plurilingual growth
Environment
International L. Media
Professional L. Society
Work
Environmental L. Friends
School L. School
Family
Family L.

22. Main educational strategies
Social dimension Attitudinal
Attitudinal Linguistic
Linguistic
Social dimension
action-plans
action-plans School Project
School Project Project
Project
Cultural
environment plan
Inclusive school
Networking
Initial Immersion
classroom
CLIL, ICT
Co-responsibility
between school Catalan
and municipal authorities

23. Learning, communicating, and sharing
in formal, informal and non formal education

24. Networking
•Diversity
•Autonomy
•Plurilingualim
•European LLP

25. Europa is multilingual…
Are European citizens plurilingual?
TWITTER MESSAGES
LANGUAGE USAGE IN TWITTER Ref: Eric Fischer http://bigthink.com/ideas/41004

26. Where?
Why?
What? How?

27. Working skills in labour markets in the 21st c.
Complex Communication
Communication
Knowledge Expert Knowledge
Manual Routine
Tasks
Cognitive Routine
Tasks
Handicraft and art

28. Unemploiment rates (2007-2012)

29. Youth population 16-20 NEET
(NINIs 2009)

30. European programmes
Ref: http://www.eesc.europa.eu/resources/toolip/img/2011/04/12/seven_pix.jpg

31. Biodiversity, adaptating to environmen
http://static.hdw.eweb4.com/media/thumbs/1/56/550747.jpg
Culture, adaptatingthe environmen
http://imgc.artprintimages.com/images/art-print/hellier-gavin-colourful-sailboats-on-jolly-beach-antigua-leeward-islands-west-
indies-caribbean_i-G-38-3830-XJ6YF00Z.jpg
http://boscovstravel.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/vietnamfarm-copyrig

32. Culture
The social mutation that help human adaptation and development,
thanks to language (it provides cognitive and communicative resopurces)

33. There are 5500/6000 languages in the world
Only 20% have a state = policy suport
80 % are minority languages
75% are threatened or extinguishing
In 100 years more than 2500
may vanish and desapear
When a language disappears,
a whole culture vanishes, with its unique,
collective, unrepeateble view of reality.
Source: « Halte à la mort des langues » Claude Hagège

34. Languages are
learning strategies
http://goo.gl/yu9qQ
Expression skills
Comprehension skills
From family bonds to Personal development
emotional connections
Social belonging
From school subject
to learning skill Intercultural exchange
From cognition
Fom personal burst
building
to artistical output
to critical thinking
From cultural
identity to

35. Languages are
Social tool social resources
to influence
people
Cultural Expression
Social inclussion
From collaborative Collective development
work to economic Interaction and collaboration
growth Influence and leadership
Connectivity enlargement
Bridging cultures and
Collective consciousness
blending communities
Learning tools to develop
personal networking
Growing expectations,
future opportunities

36. Learning several languages
develops more competent citizens
Knowledge Procedures
Plurilingual Communication
Knowledge skills
Intercultural
Competencies for a shared future Dialogue
- team working
- networking
- bridging cultural gaps Attitudes
- flexibility, plural criteria
- critical thinking
- innovation and entrepreneurship
- personal learning autonomy
- language learning ability,
- mass media competences
- creativity, artistic sensitivity
- ... … …

37. Learning languages to live together

38. Where?
Why?
What? How?

39. Spelling
Changing focus Phonetics
Vocabulary
g Grammar
in
ch … ... …
Tea
Speaking
Listening
Reading
Writing
Interacting
Content tasks
Project work ng )
ni CT
Networking (ICT) ar , I
Active Learning Le IL
Negotiating, participating (CL
Living together … … …

40. Flipping classrooms
… from passive instruction...
…to active learning
http://goo.gl/zCto2

41. Inclussive school
Developing students strategies
for lifelong learning,
active citizenship
and free choice
to work together for a better future.

42. Language: evolving concepts
Sociocultural context
Sociology and participation space
Learning strategy and
communication tool
Psychology
Subject at school
Linguistics

43. Diversity of CLIL for enhazing Plurilingualism
Plurilingual school Project
Vocational Edu. Baccalaureate
Primary schools Secondary schools Training 16-18 (pre-
3-6 (pre-primary) 16-18 (VET, pre-
12-16 (CLIL. ICT) university)
6-12 (primary) professional)
CATALAN-OCCITAN ENGLISH - FRENCH ENGLISH CURRICULAR
SPANISH ITALIAN - GERMAN LABOUR LANGUAGES LANGUAGES
Initial CLIL Virtual Open Enterprise
Classrooms Volunteers
immersion projects projects & Research

44. Language and communicative skills
Adapted from Cummings, 1986 and Vicent Pascual 2007
Language learning
interdependencies
Superficial abilities
Superficial abilities L3 Superficial
L1 abilities
Language Learning
Communication L2
evidence
Transversal
language learning
and cultural Shared and
transversal
development Plurilingual
skills competencies
New learning consolidates previous learning
and improves personal learning autonomy

45. New education for new needs
• Prioritizing reading
• Basic learning skills
• European programs
• PISA exams
• Strong ITC policy
• Teachers trainning
• School autonomy
• Social networking

46. Coherent learning for contiongent situations
It’s raining
-Where…?
-Why…? windy
It’s
…
-When...?
-… …
… It’s raining, It’s windy...
-Where…?an umbrella,
I need Why…? When...?
-In US,to a raincoat,
I have attract tourists
-ItIis modern...fast...
can’t walk

47. ORIOL is 23,
when he was at school…
http://www.phil.uu.nl/~verpalen/images/syntaxis.jpg
http://blocs.xtec.cat/quepassaalmn/files/2010/05/analisi.jpg

48. ANNA is 17,
when she was at school…

49. MARTA is 12,
now at school…
http://engracia.es/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/leer-es-algo-mas.jpg
http://www.glogster.com/media/4/37/8/29/37082979.jpg
http://www.glogster.com/media/4/37/8/29/37082932.jpg
http://liberacionahora.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/comunicar.jpg
http://img.xatakaciencia.com/2011/07/leer.jpg >

50. European priorities: Strategies 2020
New aims at the European Union (2009)
Reactivating economy and competitively
Fighting for social cohesion, against poverty and unemployment
Reinforce European citizenship and social participation
Looking for a sustainable Europe improving ecology
Providing citizens with security and common spaces in Europe
Androulla VASSILIOU:
Commissioner Education, Culture, Multilingualism Youth
Priorities: José Manuel Barroso, president of the UE.
Source : http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1837&format=HTML&aged=0&language=ES&guiLanguage=en

51. European targets 2020:
social indicators
•75 % of the population aged 20-64 should be employed.
•3% of the EU's GDP should be invested in R&D.
•The "20/20/20" climate/energy targets should be met. (i.e.
reduce 20% greenhouse gas emissions, increase 20% renewable
energy consumption, achieve a 20% increase in energy efficiency).
•The share of early school leavers should be under 10% and at
least 40% of the younger generation should have a degree or
diploma.
•20 million less people should be at risk of poverty.
Ref: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/225&format=HTML&aged=0&lg=es&guiLanguage=en

52. Common aim EU 2020
Secondary graduated students, increasing
2001-2010

54. Chart D1.1. Total num be r of intended instruction hours in public institutions betw ee n the ages of 7 and 14 (2007)
Ages 7 t o 8 Ages 9 t o 11 Ages 1 t o 1
2 4
Estonia
Finland
Slovenia
Russian Federation
Sw eden
Korea
Norw ay
Hungary
Germany
Japan
Denmark
Iceland
Czech Republic
Luxembourg
Austria
Spain
Turkey
Belgium (Fl.)
Portugal
England
Greece
Ireland
Israel
Mexico
France
Belgium (Fr.)
Australia
Netherlands
Italy
Chile
0 1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 6 000 7 000 8 000 9 000 10 000
Total number of intended instruction hours
Ref: http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_1,00.html
Countries are ranked in ascending order of total number of intended instruction hours.
Source: OECD. Table D1.1. See Annex 3 f or notes (www.oecd.org/edu/eag2009 ).

55. Results in education according to the invested capital
PIB & maths results in PISA
+ Money doesn’t mean + score
Score (maths results)
budget- & investment
•http://www.pisa.oecd.org/findDocument/0,2350,en_32252351_32235731_1_119669_1_1_1,00.html
•http://www.pisa.oecd.org/pages/0,2966,en_32252351_32235907_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

56. Education results and equity zones
Education results & social discrimination
Equity zone
- dif. income
+ dif. income
+ dif. results + dif. results
- dif. income
-dif. Results + dif. income
- dif. results

57. Annual report: language results
(15 years old students Catalonia)
Dep. Ensenyament, 4t ESO

58. School results in Catalonia:
PISA indicators 2006-2009
reading maths science
But the Spanish average is still far from the European goals

59. School should open to the world
Ref: "Cours de philosophie a Paris", sXIV. Grandes chroniques de France
http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/upload/218354281904946381_NqHDO6j4_c.jpg
Social dimension is out there!....

60. Individual commitment to a group effort
Connectivity - that is what makes a team work,
a society work, a civilization work.
Commitment Vince Lombardi
Behaviourism Structuralism Constructivism Connectivism
Focus on Science Focus on Focus on Focus on
design, Positivism, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
Empiric analysis Form. & Function. Evolutionism Neuro-Sciences
Ivan P. Pavlov, B. F. Ferdinand Saussure, Jean Piaget, Howard Gardner ,
Skinner, Albert Roman Jacobson, Lew S. Vygotsky, George Siemens
Bandura, Ed. Lee Claude Lévy-Straus, Stephen Downes
eromeBruner, J
Thorndike,; Herbert Spencer, Sugata Mitra
Laurence Kohlberg,
John B Watson Mark Johnson
Talcott Parson, Egan Kieran Lakoff. George
Turning farming Turning Industrial Multinational econ., Virtual economy,
societies into Societies into growing into a networking in a hyper-
Industrial economy multinational Worldwide
transnational connected world, to
Capitalism social awareness
economy

61. Augmented reality... In expanding schools
2001
2004
2006

62. Looking for balance and sustainability
know how & resources? sensitivity & complicities

63. Difficult times, lots of cut outs...
… we need not only resources,
but knowing how to use them properly

64. Mayber we are living uncertain times,
but future is there:
History is not what happens to us,
it is what we build together everyday.

65. Enjoy your visit!
Moltes gràcies!