The Council of Europe and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Albania, launched today in a joint Conference organised in Tirana, the Language Education Policy Profile for Albania.
The Albanian education system in currently undergoing thorough and complex reform and language education is a priority area. Albania’s principal objectives in requesting the Council of Europe’s assistance in developing a Language Education Policy Profile were:
- To strengthen the plurilingual and multicultural profile of Albania
- To prepare a document the will support the development of clear policies for language learning and teaching in Albania
- To elaborate curricula in compliance with European standards and Albania’s situation and
- To set priorities in the professional development of language teachers.
The Profile process concerns all languages in education and makes proposals for future action in several priority areas such as:
- Language related legislation and policy
- Languages of Schooling (Albanian, Romani, Albanian Sign Language)
- Foreign Language reform (Early language learning, vocational education, assessment)
- Foreign Language teacher education as well as Licensing of teachers and role of Teachers Associations.
This is the 18th profile developed within the framework of the Language Education Programme of the Council of Europe which aims to provide member States with the opportunity to undertake a self-evaluation of their policy through a dialogue with international experts based on the standards developed by the Council of Europe over the past decades, and with a view to focusing of future policy developments in the country.
The full report of the Language Education Policy Profile in english and in albanian.
