Language learning as a factor of social cohesion in multilingual society: rection on the functional change of teaching and learning foreign languages

Abstract

Teaching / learning foreign languages in Spain has improved a signi cant functional change in recent years, motivated directly by the social changes, and especially, by immigration. To the group of students from more traditional and large pro le is added another, multinational, for whom Spanish is a foreign language. That implies the condition of bridge language. To attend these students causes some adjustments in the obligatory education and in a lesser level at the university. Considering this context of diversi cation of student´s pro le foreign language, the answer only can be encourage language teaching as the unique e ective method to promote social cohesion.

Keywords

• interculturalidad
• diversidad
• aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras
• multiculturalism
• linguistic diversity
• learning foreign languages