L. Activity 1. EU Language Policies - Group work

1. What do you think is the role of the EU Policies in Education?

• Develop quality education
• Promote life-long learning
• Encourage educational cooperation between UE members
• Foster the mobility of citizens
• Develop educational programmes

2. What do you understand by EU Language Policies?

The European Commission has established language policy papers whose aims are fostering the importance of education in EU state members and caring about particular areas of their education and training policy.

3. Can you name any EU initiative related to Language Learning?

• EU Portfolio
• Erasmus + Programme
• Erasmus + Internships Programme

4. In your opinion:

- What are the main factors that drive EU Language Policies?

• The educational responsibility of the EU member states.
• The objective to create a European education area.

- What are the main factors that make people want to learn a language?

Some people learn languages to learn new cultures and travel to other countries, but the majority of people do it for academic and work purposes.


- What are the main factors that make people interested in defending any specific Language Policy?

Speaking many languages is really important nowadays. Everything is globalized and so are we. We need to be able to speak in, at least, another language because it let us open our minds to the world. Fortunately, the policies support language investments and programmes.