Bilingual education is a method offered in modern language schools, as well as in comprehensive schools and secondary schools. In bilingual education the teaching material in at least one school subject is taught in a different language than in the ordinary language of instruction, or it is the whole course material generally taught in more than one language. It can also be the language of instruction in the same compartment switch to different classes. Lately, more and more primary schools with bilingual education provide language acquisition through the immersion.
The target of a bilingual subject teaching is based on the model of the Bilingual Triangle, which implies that students should learn to communicate adequately substantiated scientifically with members of other languages and cultures:
- about their own experiences, their own world, and their own culture and society;
- of phenomena, situations, and circumstances of the target language cultures and societies;
- of phenomena, situations, and issues of cross-cultural, global or universal significance.