Colombia's foreign language education policies

Colombia's foreign language education policies

1. started in

   • 19th Century (1826)
     • with
       • Multilingual law of March
         • Spanish
         • Results
           • Did not have practical effects
         • English
         • Latin
         • Greek
         • French
         • Indigenous

2. 20th Century

   • 70's
     • 1970
       • Extinction of latin in schools
     • 1979
       • French as a subject for secundary school (10th and 11th grades)
   • 80's
     • 1989
       • British Council Report
         • English language teaching and learning
   • 90's
     • 1991
       • Colombian's political costitution
         • provided
           • recognition of all indigenous languages
         • There was an
           • Economical policiy expansion
         • Cultural richness
         • needed to improve
           • English level
             • specially teacher's
               • arose
                 • COFE
                   • was created to improve
                     • teaching English
                       • by
                         • Goverment of United Kingdom British Council and Colombia
                   • ending in 1997
         • Colombian's multiligual
     • 1994
       • General law of Education
         • stated
           • The adquisition of elements as
             • conversation
             • reading
             • as a desirable goal

3. 21st Century

   • 2004-2019 National Bilingualism Programme (NBP)
     • to propel
       • learning English in
         • schools
         • universities
     • under the supervision of
       • The British Council
         • presented by
           • President Juan Manuel Santos
           • Minister of Education Maria Fernanda Campo
   • 2013
     • Bilingualism Law
       • was enacted to modify 1994's General Education of Law
         • to
           • reflect the horizon of English as a technical tool for employment
             • Social Development
   • 2014
     • 2015-2025Colombia very well!
       • 2015
         • Change to
           • Colombia Bilingüe
       • was criticism for its deliberate focus on English and not addressing bilingualism in the academic sense
         • causing
           • lack of credibility
       • adopting
         • without
           • adapting
             • not taken into account
               • Colombian context
                 • as a
                   • social conditions
               • opinios
                 • from
                   • English teachers
                   • Principal secretaries of education
                   • Indigenous community
                   • scholars
                   • principals
   • 2014-2018
     • looking for a new strategies
       • as a
         • Foreign Native Trainers