The current issues of bilingual education in Europe (with a focus on the Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom)

Abstract

Bilingual schools enable students to gain knowledge of two foreign languages, which is a goal of many EU and UN educational programmes. The aim of this contribution is to present the theme on the basis of the situation at bilingual schools in the Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom that take part in CLIL iniciative (The Method of Content and Language Integrated Learning).

Keywords

• language education
• bilingualism
• plurilingualism
• CLIL
• UNESCO
• EU
• bilingual schools
• immersion
• partial immersion
• official language
• regional language
• teacher education
• European funds
• methodical resources