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Plurilingualism in Valencian Community Diverse rules from Valencian Community have regulated the use of co-official language, Valenciano, at the different educational stages, setting up a bilingual model. Nevertheless, a growing demand social has led us to new model sociolinguistic, known as Plurilingualism. By other hand, the Council of Europe in its aim to manage a multilingual environment, has developed a Common Framework of Reference by which makes recommendations for teaching and learning languages. One of its most remarkable contribution is the Common Reference Levels that establish different levels of linguistic proficiency allowing the recognition of qualifications among European States. The new Plurilingualism Decree of Valencian Community collects the recommendations from Council of Europe and defines an educational organization with three instructional languages: Valenciano as the language of our territory, Spanish as the State language and English as the primary language of the globalized world. This regulation provides several benefits for each member of the educational community. For example, it improves the communicative competence of learners and allows the public recognition of their achievement through the Common European Framework Reference. Thanks to this, students will able to complete their formative develop in other countries, as it is the case of vocational training studies. In relation to schools, it provides an actual framework to organize the educational system in terms of languages, what subject will be instructed in which language. This allow schools to suit to the sociolinguistic environment in which they are located. In addition, the Common European Framework establish a guidelines to elaborate curriculum of languages contents, describing what the students have to learn and what communicative skills have to manage in each specific reference level. Lastly, the relationship with the families is improved since they have the possibility to pick out among different educational projects. In conclusion, plurilingualism is not just based on achieving a linguistic competences at the end of studies. Plurilingualism treats the language as a channel to transmit the cultural diversity, in order to integrate everyone but keeping their own identity.

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Plurilingualism in the Valencian Community

Diverse Diversity rules from the Valencian Community have regulated the use of the co-official language, Valenciano, at the different educational stages, setting up a bilingual model. Nevertheless, a growing demand social demand has led us to new model sociolinguistic model, known as Plurilingualism.

By On the other hand, the Council of Europe in its aim to manage a multilingual environment, has developed a Common Framework of Reference by which it makes recommendations for teaching and learning languages. One of its most remarkable contributions is the Common Reference Levels that establish different levels of linguistic proficiency allowing the recognition of qualifications among European States.

The new Plurilingualism Decree of the Valencian Community collects the recommendations from Council of Europe and defines an educational organization with three instructional languages: Valenciano as the language of our territory, Spanish as the State language and English as the primary language of the globalized world.

This regulation provides several benefits for each member of the educational community. For example, it improves the communicative competence of learners and allows the public recognition of their achievement through the Common European Framework Reference. Thanks to this, students will able to complete their formative development in other countries, as it is the case of with vocational training studies.

In relation to schools, it provides an actual framework to organize the educational system in terms of languages, what which subject will be instructed in which language. This allows schools to suit adapt to the sociolinguistic environment in which they are located. In addition, the Common European Framework establishes a guidelines to elaborate the curriculum of languages contents, describing what the students have to learn and what communicative skills they have to manage in each specific reference level.

Lastly, the relationship with the families is improved since they have the possibility to pick out among (better: pick from) different educational projects.

In conclusion, plurilingualism is not just based on achieving a linguistic competences (or a linguistic competences) at the end of studies. Plurilingualism treats the language as a channel to transmit the cultural diversity, in order to integrate everyone but keeping their own identity.


Very well written Javier! My corrections are in red and suggestions to sound more natural in blue and grey.


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