New reference guide LASLLIAM is available
Great news! The new European reference guide on Literacy and Second Language Learning for the Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants (LASLLIAM) is now available.
LASLLIAM is a new reference guide of the Council of Europe. It was developed by a group of LESLLA experts and the Council of Europe Education Department to support high-quality learning environments for non- and low-literate migrants.
LASLLIAM is linked to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages. It provides Can-do descriptors at levels below and up to A1 as well as extensive recommendations on how to use these to encourage/assist learner emancipation and learner development.
With this guide, the authoring group intends to contribute to enhancing language-learning opportunities for non- and low-literate adult migrants by supporting their language educators in designing, implementing, evaluating and improving curricula and teaching materials tailored toward the specific needs of the learners.
Language skills foster, among others, social inclusion, and access to education and employment. Within this context, non-literate or low-literate migrants have specific educational needs, as they must learn a second language while either learning to read and write for the first time or developing basic literacy competences in an alphabet or writing system sometimes different from the one they will have learned initially.
When it comes to language or knowledge of society courses, these needs are rarely taken into consideration, and this group of migrants is rarely offered a sufficient number of hours to reach the language level required. This is why LASLLIAM has been conceived: it aims at supporting language educators, curriculum designers and language policymakers in their endeavour to design, implement, evaluate and improve curricula tailored toward the specific needs of the target learners.
Additional information can be found here.
