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The Secondary School No. 2 Cotillas Towers, located in the district of Florida, has been included from the year 2012-13 by the Ministry of Education of the regional government in its program of bilingual education in the form of Spanish-English.

This first year involved 25 students of 1 Secondary Education (ESO), who will attend the same material as the rest of his classmates, with the difference that English be taught bilingual four hours a week (compared to three hours of a normal group) and non-linguistic disciplines of Mathematics and Technology (where the use of English is complementary, so that will be progressively incorporated).

Also study a compulsory second language (German or French) with a weekly charge of 3 hours, which will mean a total workload of 32 hours per week, compared to 30 hours of standard groups.

Also, are proposed as complementary and extracurricular activities as exchanges for students to practice English with other kids his age, inclusion in the European program "Comenius", as these consisted of working groups between several countries language most often used in English, the application in the future, when the volume of students forbid, a native language assistant to complement the teacher's performance.

First institute

"Finally Township Cotillas Towers has a secondary school that teaches this bilingual education in English, like other neighboring towns," said Councilman Torreño of Education, Pedro Cabrera.

Note that in Cotillas Towers already built two schools to bilingual education program: the CEIP "Vistalegre", which began in the 2009-10 academic year and that next year reaches 4 ° Elementary, and CEIP "San José ", which began in the 2011-12 school year and that next year will reach 2 ° of Primary.

"With projects like this will help students develop skills for active management in the English language, providing all the possibilities of access to that language," said Cabrera.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas