INTEGRATED TEACHING OF LANGUAGES IN MULTILINGUAL SCHOOLS

On the basis of the multilingual and multicultural character of today's society, the article raises the need for the school to introduce the necessary organisational and methodological changes to give response to the communicative needs of multilingual students. To achieve this goal, we propose two working ways; the first one, integrated teaching of language and curriculum content (CLIL); the second, the integrated treatment of different languages (TIL). This article focuses on the latter methodological proposal, based on the communicative approach to language teaching applied to learning situations in which different languages coexist. The integrated treatment of languages proposes the collaborative work of teachers of the different languages at school on the basis of all those shared elements. The coordination between the teachers training college in addition to multiply the effectiveness of individual interventions, facilitates the development of the multilingual competition for learners.