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Trilingualism at school: the place of English in Basque education

@inproceedings{Lasagabaster2007TrilingualismAS,
  title={Trilingualism at school: the place of English in Basque education},
  author={David Lasagabaster},
  year={2007}
}

• D. Lasagabaster
• Published 2007
• Education

• The A Model: in this programme all subjects are taught in Spanish except for Basque Language and Literature, representing approximately one hour of class a day. Pupils' L1 is Spanish. In 1983 72.8% of pre-university level pupils were studying in this model. This figure has steadily declined since, until in the 2005-06 school year fewer than a quarter of all pupils (24%, to be exact) were enrolled in Model A. • The B Model: this is an early partial immersion programme in which approximately half of the subjects are taught in Euskara and the other half in Spanish. It should be noted that this language model is more mixed than the others and therefore undergoes greater variation from one school to another. The majority of pupils have Spanish as their L1. The proportion of pupils enrolled in this model has stabilised in recent years at about 22%24%, in comparison to the initial figure of 10.5% in 1983 when the system was established. • The D Model: this is a programme in which all the subjects are taught in Euskara except for Spanish Language and Literature, which represent approximately one class hour per day. Pupils' L1 may be either Basque (in which case this amounts to a language maintenance programme) or Spanish (in which case it is in effect an early total immersion programme). In the 1983-84 school year only 16.5% of pupils opted for this model, whereas it has now become the most popular of all models, with over 53% of the total present student enrolment.