MOOC: Multilingual Education

Week 5: Multilingual school

In week 5 you will get acquainted with various types of bilingual education. In particular, we will look at “weak” and “strong” forms of bilingual education. The underlying questions we will address are: What are the objectives and outcomes of different types of bilingual education? What are the general objectives of bilingual education? Which forms of bilingual education are most effective?

5.1. Types of bilingual education
5.2. Language immersion and CLIL
5.3. Language support in multilingual schools