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1540
Colonial and Independence Periods: Latin-Spanish Bilingualism
1540-1810
These
institutions taught, mainly, males from wealthy Spanish families to read, write, and recite
religious tracts in Latin. -
Post-Independence Period: Spanish-French and Spanish-English Bilingualism
1811-1886
In this period, many
language policies were created, but some of them were not implemented. One of these
policies, launched in 1826, proposed to teach in primary and secondary schools Spanish,
Latin, Greek, French, English, and one indigenous language -
National Plan of Bilingualism 2004-2019
2004-2019
the main objective of the
National Plan of Bilingualism was to attend to the
particular bilingualism necessities considering the multiculturalism. -
Program for Strengthening the Development of Competences in Foreign Languages 2010-2014
2010-2014
the aim of the PFDCLE was to help Colombian citizens
develop communicative competencies in foreign languages, emphasizing English, in order to
favor the insertion of Colombian human capital into the global knowledge economy and the
international job market. -
Law of Bilingualism (Law 1651 of July 12th, 2013)
For this purpose, the objective of “developing communicative skills to read,
understand, write, listen, speak, and express correctly in a foreign language, it was added to the general objectives of the
elementary, secondary and high school levels of education. -
Bilingual Colombia
2014-2018
t the program aims to achieve by 2018 that 35% of the Colombian eleventh graders from the public sector attain a B2 level, and 8% reach an A1
level. -
Colombia Very Well
2015-2025
The objective of the PNI (its acronym in Spanish) was that, by 2025, 50% of 11th graders achieve a B1 English Level. The plan also aims at impacting the English education at the university level and in productive sector (workers). -
As a conclusion
To sum up, Colombia has a long tradition in foreign languages instruction, especially
French and English. Since 2004, the instruction of English has been prioritized through the
launching of a bilingualism law and four national bilingualism plans