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CATEGORIES:Second Language Education Group
SUMMARY:English medium education in basic and higher educa
 tion: lessons learned from across the globe - Mark
  Levy\, John Simpson\, Ann Veitch (British Council
 )
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201116T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201116T173000
UID:TALK153427AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/153427
DESCRIPTION:The British Council works globally in supporting g
 overnments and institutions to address some of the
  challenges faced in providing quality education i
 n bi/multilingual education systems\, or where Eng
 lish is an additional language but is the medium o
 f instruction for all or part of the education sys
 tem (EME). Where EME is viewed as means of gaining
  fluency in the language\, two distinct activities
  may be conflated in the debate on language of lea
 rning and teaching: learning a language (English) 
 and learning in a language (English medium)\, a mu
 ch more challenging task whose success is dependen
 t on cognitive and academic language proficiency. 
 This session will present our approach and some of
  our work in this area in Basic Education (BE) and
  Higher Education (HE) and across different contex
 ts\, specifically Sub-Saharan Africa and Spain. In
  low and middle income countries\, EME in BE can b
 e characterised as complex\, challenging and contr
 oversial. We will look at the evidence-based appro
 ach\, promoting relevant research findings on the 
 relationship between medium of education and learn
 ing outcomes\, that the British Council adopts whe
 n advising Ministries of Education on English in B
 E. In Spain\, multilingual\, bilingual education a
 nd CLIL is mainstreamed\, and the latest official 
 figures (18-19) show that 36.8% of primary and 35.
 3% of secondary schools offer subjects taught in E
 nglish. The only national Bilingual Education Prog
 ramme\, a collaboration between the Spanish Minist
 ry of Education\, the British Council and 10 regio
 nal governments\, is about to celebrate its 25th a
 nniversary. Pulling on the learning from our own d
 irect involvement\, we will reflect on factors tha
 t appear to make the difference between success an
 d failure and on the challenges that still remain.
  Moreover\, over the past decades\, there has been
  rapid growth in EME in HE. We will reflect on the
  negative and positive impacts of this growth\, th
 e implications for organisations like the British 
 Council in promoting quality and successful learni
 ng outcomes through EME\, and discuss some of the 
 difficulties in having a global approach – as we d
 o with EME in BE in low and middle income countrie
 s – to this phenomena. \n
LOCATION:Online
CONTACT:Karen Forbes
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