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SUMMARY:English medium education in basic and higher education: lessons le
 arned from across the globe - Mark Levy\, John Simpson\, Ann Veitch (Briti
 sh Council)
DTSTART:20201116T160000Z
DTEND:20201116T173000Z
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CONTACT:Karen Forbes
DESCRIPTION:The British Council works globally in supporting governments a
 nd institutions to address some of the challenges faced in providing quali
 ty education in bi/multilingual education systems\, or where English is an
  additional language but is the medium of instruction for all or part of t
 he education system (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 learning and teaching: learning a language (English) and le
 arning in a language (English medium)\, a much more challenging task whose
  success is dependent on cognitive and academic language proficiency. This
  session will present our approach and some of our work in this area in Ba
 sic Education (BE) and Higher Education (HE) and across different contexts
 \, specifically Sub-Saharan Africa and Spain. In low and middle income cou
 ntries\, EME in BE can be characterised as complex\, challenging and contr
 oversial. We will look at the evidence-based approach\, promoting relevant
  research findings on the relationship between medium of education and lea
 rning outcomes\, that the British Council adopts when advising Ministries 
 of Education on English in BE. In Spain\, multilingual\, bilingual educati
 on and CLIL is mainstreamed\, and the latest official figures (18-19) show
  that 36.8% of primary and 35.3% of secondary schools offer subjects taugh
 t in English. The only national Bilingual Education Programme\, a collabor
 ation between the Spanish Ministry of Education\, the British Council and 
 10 regional governments\, is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Pull
 ing on the learning from our own direct involvement\, we will reflect on f
 actors that appear to make the difference between success and failure and 
 on the challenges that still remain. Moreover\, over the past decades\, th
 ere has been rapid growth in EME in HE. We will reflect on the negative an
 d positive impacts of this growth\, the implications for organisations lik
 e the British Council in promoting quality and successful learning outcome
 s through EME\, and discuss some of the difficulties in having a global ap
 proach – as we do with EME in BE in low and middle income countries – 
 to this phenomena. \n
LOCATION:Online
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