Abstract. The university's mission is to equip students with the resources they need for the job market and to provide training in a globalized world. Languages and their cultures are essential tools in the multilingual society in which we develop our potential as citizens. Language policies safeguard and facilitate equal opportunities in the labor market, and it is because of this central role that they become objects of study in educational contexts. The Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the Graz Language Centre, in their recommendations, identify multilingualism as a basic principle of language policies and the CLIL approach as an effective way to achieve this goal. Spain embraced this approach with great enthusiasm from the outset and has become a leading example of its implementation. In higher education, development has initially been uneven. European language policies reached Spanish tertiary education through their prior implementation in primary and secondary education, thus completing the cycle of multilingual educational offerings. The recent measures taken by CRUE and ACLES attempt to establish a common framework for promoting multilingualism in Spanish universities.
How to cite. Julián de Vega, C., and Ávila López, J. (2018). European and Spanish language policies: the path towards change in tertiary education. Porta Linguarum: International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, (Extra 3), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.30827/Digibug.54158
