This document provides information about the Catalan educational system and language situation in Catalonia. It discusses: 1) Key facts about Catalonia such as its population size and location within Spain. 2) The status and population of the Catalan language in Europe compared to other major languages. 3) Challenges facing the Catalan language including its status across multiple countries and balancing identity with globalization. 4) Demographic trends in Catalonia including a rising immigrant population in schools.

1. The Catalan educational System
Servei de Llengües
Subdirecció General de Llengües i Entorn
Departament d’Educació
Neus Lorenzo Galés, 2010
nlorenzo@xtec.cat

2. European priorities
Five key challenges facing Europe (Nov.2009)
• Restarting economic growth today and ensuring long–term
sustainability and competitiveness for the future
• Fighting unemployment and reinforcing our social cohesion
• Turning the challenge of a sustainable Europe to our
competitive advantage
• Reinforcing EU citizenship and participation
participation.
• Ensuring the security of Europeans
Androulla VASSILIOU:
Comissionate: Education, Culture, Multilingüism and Youth
Prioritaties of the European Union (president José Manuel Barroso)
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Font : http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1837&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

3. Catalonia, an Autonomy in Spain
Population:
7.202.905 inhabitants (2008)
15.96% of the Spanish population
946 municipalities
41 territories
4 provinces: Girona, Lleida, Tarragona, Barcelona
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4. Catalonia:
a small country in Europe
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5. Catalan language in Europe
LANGUAGE POPULATION LANGUAGE POPULATION
German 90.2 M
French 62.7 M
English 62.2 M
Italian 57.4 M Hungarian 10.5 M
Spanish 39.8 M Czech 10.3 M
Polish 38.7 M Bulgarian 8.3 M
Catalan 10.8 M Slovakian 5.4 M
Greek 10.6 M Lithuanian 3.7 M
Portuguese 9.8 M Latvian 2.4 M
Swedish 9.3 M Slovene 2.0 M
Danish 5.2 M Estonian 1.4 M
Finnish
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Maltese 0.4 M

6. Language challenges in Catalonia
Social cohesion
• 10M speakers in 4 countries
• Identity vs. Globalisation
• Bilingualism vs. Plurilingualism
• Intercultural dialog
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7. Immigrant students increase
in Catalonia
Immigrants students in Catalonia
180000 14.15%
160000 13.65%
140000 10.05% 148.525
133.000
120000 9.03% 121.622
106.746
100000 7.65% 93.831
Alumnat Estranger
Immigrant students
80000 74.491
5.04%
60000 51.926
40000 0.81% 34.797
20000 16.921 23.778
9.868 19.793
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Source: http://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=aec&n=274&t=2008

8. Students newly arrived
ordered by originating country
30000 29.561
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9. The Catalan educational model
Many different societies ? One complex society?
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10. Usage of official languages
in Catalonia 2008
Family la llar
Membres de Friends
Amistats
0,00 500,00 1.000,00 1.500,00 2.000,00 2.500,00 0,00 500,00 1.000,00 1.500,00 2.000,00 2.500,00
Companys de feina Companys d'estudi
Work Schoolmates
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Neighbours
Veïns
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0,00 500,00 1.000,00 1.500,00 2.000,00 2.500,00

11. Plurilingual Project:
languages in a lifelong learning process
International globalisation
Professional profiles
Learning and personal growing process
Environment
Family language
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12. Saving diversity is a long term investment
Biodiversity
Benefits:
-planetary survival
-health research
reservoir
-flexible response for
Life and Nature
-wider resource pool
for facing crisis
-adaptation
Cultural
diversity
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13. Language dymamics:
~ 5000 - 5500 languages in the world
About 8-10 % disappear every year
Only 10% are active in the Internet space
(40 languages for 99,3 % of users)
80 % are no-state, minority languages
75% are threatened or in danger
In 100 years
about 2500 will disappear (50 %)
When a language disappears,
a whole culture vanishes, with its unique,
collective, unrepeateble view of reality.
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Source: « Halte à la mort des langues »
Claude Hagège

14. Learning a new language is opening a window
to other cultures, it is a right for our students
and a benefit for the whole community
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15. Languages in the Catalan Educational System
Language for
sharing opportunities
and living together
Catalan (Occitan)
Curricular Languages Extra Curricular languages
(family language, complementary
lifelong learning)
Catalan (Occitan) Arabic
Spanish Chinese
Amazig
English Rumanian
French Ukrainian
German Portuguese
Italian Galician
(Latin/Old Greek) (Quitxua)
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16. Chart D1.1. Total num be r of intended ins truction hours in public institutions betw ee n the ages of 7 and 14 (2007)
Ag es 7 t o 8 Ag es 9 t o 11 Ag es 12 t o 14
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
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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 ).

17. Learning languages, building bridges
Basic Skills (CEFR)
• Oral comprehension
• Reading comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Writing expression
• Interaction, conversation
– Initial inclusive classroom (Catalan language immersion)
– Open classroom (Active pre-professional approach)
– Environmental Plan (Contextual inclusion)
– 1x1 projects (ICT and collaborative activities)
– International projects (CLIL methodologies and exchanges)
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19. High level learning processes and ICT
Creació
Avaluació Crear
Avaluar
Síntesi
Analitzar
Anàlisi
Aplicació Aplicar
Comprensió
Entendre
Coneixement Recordar
Bloom Fisher
School Projects
Fonts:
Bloom’s Taxonomy: : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_Taxonomy
M.Fisher 2009: http://www.digygogy.blogspot.com
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20. Scaffolding
Input Output
Transformation
Tittle:
Author:
Sumary:
Assessment
SelF-assessment
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Font: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/tv/

21. Studies & Levels
+18…. years Lifelong learning
University
University
+18... years
Professional Training
16-18 (+18) y. Post Compulsory
Institutes
12-16 years Secondary
6-12 years Primary
Schools
3-6 years Pre-school
Kindergarden
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0-3 years Infant edu.

22. Core Curriculum (40%, State) Llei Orgànica d’Educació (LOE, 2006)
Flexible curriculum (60%, Autonomy) LEC, Llei d’Educació de Catalunya, 2009
Llar Escola CEIP Institut IES (ESO) Universitat
Pre-school Primary Secondary Post-compulsory
Different school typologies:
• State schools (public, state funded) 50 %
• Private funded schools, concertades (private, state funded) 50%
• Private, independent schools (private, self-founded) 4%

23. Chart D1.2a. Instruction tim e pe r subje ct as a pe rce ntage of total com pulsory ins truction tim e for 9-11 ye ar-olds (2007)
Percentage of intended instruction time devoted to various subject areas within the total compulsory curriculum
R ead ing , writ ing and lit erat ure M at hemat ics Science
M o d ern fo reig n lang uag es Ot her co mp uls o ry co re curriculum Co mp uls o ry flexib le curriculum
100%
80%
60%
Languages
Science
40% Maths
20%
Reading...
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Turkey
etherlands1
France
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Ireland
reece
bourg3
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stonia
Finland
Japan
Iceland
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Israel
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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.
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Ref: http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_1,00.html

24. Read ing , writ ing and lit erat ure M at hemat ics Science
M o d ern fo reig n lang uag es Ot her co mp uls o ry co re curriculum Co mp uls o ry flexib le curriculum
100%
80%
60%
Languages
40%
Science
Version 1 - Last updated: 19-Aug-2009
Chart D1.2b. Instruction time per subject as a percentage of total compulsory 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...
0%
ark
Belgium (Fr.)3
Russian Federation
Turkey
any
Czech Republic
bourg2
Italy3
France
exico
Estonia
Iceland
Finland
Greece
Japan
Belgium (Fl.)
Ireland1
Chile
England
Israel
Portugal
Hungary
Spain
Slovenia
Korea
Austria
Australia
Norway
Sweden
Denm
Germ
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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.
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Countries are r
Ref: http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_1,00.html

25. Non-formal and informal education
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26. Diversity, a collective empowerment
Dealing with diversity
to grant
equity in rights and duties
EQUITY
in
DIVERSITY reading, writing, speaking, listening
Building knowledge
Building community in several languages
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27. Sharing past?
Geographical and
institutional space?
Common past?
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28. Sharing present?
An oral and written shared language?
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29. Sharing future?
Sense, vision and will of common future?
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30. The Catalan educational System
Servei de Llengües
Subdirecció General de Llengua i Entorn
Departament d’Educació
Neus Lorenzo Galés, 2010
nlorenzo@xtec.cat