Diapositiva 1

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THE ANDALUSIAN BILINGUAL SECTIONS
SCHEME EVALUATION AND CONSULTANCY
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BACKGROUND
? Plan to promote Plurilingualism (2005) 40,000
students (2008-9)

• Bilingual schools
• Official language schools
• Plurilingualism and teachers
• Plurilingualism and society
• Plurilingualism and cross-cultural

Programmes
? Content areas ? Methodology ? Cultural
awareness ? Pan-linguistic
consciousness ? Cognitive flexibility
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVES SCOPE

• Competence development
• Teaching Organization in Bilingual Sections
• Implementation of Bilingual Models in the
  Classroom
• Levels of satisfaction

? 61 randomly selected bilingual schools ? May
2007 Piloting ? November 2007-April 2008 Visits
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VARIABLES
1. Provinces 8
2. Primary or Secondary Education
3. Urban or Rural Location
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INFORMANT PROFILES
? 398 Teachers ? 1,768 Students ? 972 Families
OPINION QUESTIONNAIRES

• Teachers
• Students
• Family
• Co-ordinator interview

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LINGUISTIC EVALUATION
? Skills-based
? BICS CALP
? CEFR Andalusian decretos
? Learner levels A1 (primary) A2 (secondary)
? Elaborated piloted in English then French
German versions
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TEST DESIGN
? Reading Listening familiar exercise types
illustrations examples
? Writing 3 mini-tasks combined genre
scaffolding
? Speaking interaction production series of
overlapping topics secondary paired, primary
individual (lots of realia)
? All tests Instructions L1 L2
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EVALUATION
? No pass/fail
? Equivalence to CEFR levels
? Equal weighting all four skills (/25)
? Objective/subjective mix
? Benchmarking for subjective
? Writing Task (/15) Language (/10)
? Speaking Global Impression
(shaped by CEFR descriptors)
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THE ANDALUSIAN BILINGUAL SECTIONS
SCHEME EVALUATION AND CONSULTANCY scasmad_at_upo.e
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