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Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues
Terms Used
Since we intend that our report should be read by the public at large, we have
wherever possible avoided the use of professional acronyms and instead have
described organisations by their full title. However, it has proved appropriate
to use a small number of acronyms. These are:
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ICT
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Information and Communications Technology.
This is not limited to computers and their applications such as e-mail
and the Internet but applies also to uses of audio, video and other media,
including for example video-conferencing.
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MLPS
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Modern Languages in the Primary School.
This applies mainly to the national initiative in Scotland which began
as national and regional pilots in the late 1980s (mostly based on a secondary
teacher visiting the associated primary schools in order to work with
primary classteachers) and was progressively extended across the country
during a 'generalisation' phrase beginning in the mid 1990s (mostly based
on primary classteachers being released for 27 days during four terms
in order to participate in the national training programme).
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Where we use terms such as P7, S2, this means Primary School
Year 7, Secondary School Year 2 etc.
In our text we also refer to Learning and Teaching Scotland, the merged
body that consists of the former Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum
and the Scottish Council for Educational Technology, and to Scottish
CILT which is the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching
and Research, based at the University of Stirling.
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