Report and evaluation of the development of CLIL Programmes in Catalonia

This chapter offers an overview of foreign language teaching plans in the last ten years in Catalonia. In the introduction, we review the bilingual immersion plans for learning Catalan and Spanish that were designed in the second half of the 20th century; this is the jumping-off point for understanding the development of Catalan multilingual educational policies. We go on to describe the main foreign language teaching programmes that allow Catalan students to learn a third language and learn in a third language, built on content-based project-work and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approaches. We also present statistics for participation and for results of student evaluations in languages and in curricular content. Finally, we analyse the main school factors and classroom practices that correlate with success and high scores in international results, and examine their impact in Catalan schools.