The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) education portal grandiosely states: “Bilingual teaching is a formula for success. The DESI (Deutsch-Englisch Schülerleistungen International) study commissioned by the Conference of German Education Ministers, projects at different schools, and further comparative studies have shown that bilingual teaching is a particularly effective way teaching language competences, intercultural competences, and subject-matter competences at one and the same time.”
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The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) education portal grandiosely states: “Bilingual teaching is a formula for success. The DESI (Deutsch-Englisch Schülerleistungen International) study commissioned by the Conference of German Education Ministers, projects at different schools, and further comparative studies have shown that bilingual teaching is a particularly effective way of teaching language competences, intercultural competences, and subject-matter competences at one and the same time.”[1] It cannot be denied that bilingual education (or CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning) is a “formula for success” – especially at high schools. This so-called “success”, however, comes at a high price and can be described as a Danaan gift because the only subjects benefitting from bilingual programmes are languages.
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