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Multilingual education is an educational approach in which two or more languages are used as media of teaching and learning across part or all of the curriculum, with planned goals for both subject learning and language development [1][2][3][4]. It includes models such as mother-tongue-based multilingual education, bilingual/dual-language programs, and additional-language pathways that support progression from familiar languages to wider national or international languages [1][2]. Multilingual education is characterized by structured language allocation, curriculum alignment across languages, and pedagogical strategies that treat learners’ full linguistic repertoires as educational resources rather than deficits [2][3][4]. In policy and research contexts, the term denotes a system-level and classroom-level framework for equitable access, participation, and achievement in linguistically diverse settings, distinct from monolingual schooling with occasional language support.

multilingual education mother-tongue-based education bilingual education language-in-education policy

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  1. Council of Europe. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment—Companion Volume; Council of Europe Publishing: Strasbourg, 2020. Available online: https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages.
  2. European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice. Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2023 Edition; Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg, 2023. Available online: https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/publications/key-data-teaching-languages-school-europe-2023-edition.
  3. Ofelia García; Li Wei. Translanguaging; Springer Nature: Durham, NC, United States, 2014. [CrossRef]
  4. Jim Cummins. Language, Power and Pedagogy; Channel View Publications, Ltd.: Bristol, United Kingdom, 2000. [CrossRef]
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