Introduction |
EU Action Plan for Languages
The Action Plan sets out the Commission's vision for the future, based
on three main objectives:
- promoting lifelong language learning
- improving language teaching
- creating a language-friendly environment.
- Encouraging people visiting other countries under Socrates or Leonardo
da Vinci programmes to take advantage of the funding available for language
training before they go.
- Assigning a higher proportion of Comenius 1 funding to school language projects.
- A study and European conference on early foreign language learning, with the aim of establishing a network of practioners.
- Promoting increased take-up of the Language Assistants programme, particularly at primary level Increased support for schools wishing to introduce a Content and Language Integrated Learning approach.
- A Web Portal for Adult language learning
- E-twinning between schools
- A study on the obstacles to mobility for language teachers in Europe
- A symposium on the supply of qualified language teachers in Europe Data-gathering for a new European indicator of language competence
- Funding from mainstream programmes to be made available for projects relating to regional and minority languages
- Amendments to the Grundtvig action to attach a higher priority to language learning projects, in particular the languages of migrant communities
- A five-yearly monitoring report on the state of diversity in the supply of language teaching in the Union.
- A detailed study of the requirements for language skills in the European Union, and the costs of non-multilingualism
- Establishment of a European network of Inspectors of foreign language education.
