GLOSARY

GLOSARY

Bilingual education: It refers to approaches in the classroom that use the native languages of English language learners

Bilingualism education: It´s applied to individual children and to educational programs. It is defined predominantly in linguistic dimensions despite the fact that bilingualism is correlated with a number of nonlinguistic social parameters.

Common European Framework: It describes in a comprehensive way what language learners have to learn to do in order to use a language for communication and what knowledge and skills they have to develop so as to be able to act effectively.

Linguistic competence: considered here from the point of view of a given individual’s communicative language competence, such as: range, quality of knowledge, cognitive organization and the way this knowledge is stored and to its accessibility.

Sociolinguistic competences: it is refer to the sociocultural conditions of language use.

Pragmatic competences: are concerned with the functional use of linguistic resources (production of language functions, speech acts), drawing on scenarios or scripts of international exchange.