Eleanitz project

Eleanitz is a project created by the Ikastolas to improve the English of their students. The reason of the creation of this project was the necessity of knowing another language to live in Europe. The purpose of the project is to join two things: get all the development that the Basque language needs to get its field and know and manage another language, which means, Eleaniztasuna, multilingualism. To be a multilinguist has some positive benefits, such as getting more creative mind and mind flexibility.

To put this project to work, the Ikastolas had to decide which was going to be the foreign language between French and English, and, at the end, they decided to teach the English language. In addition to that, they knew that everything we have said before wouldn't work if they used the method that they used to use. They needed another way to teach language but one which didn't take out the Basque language; so they decided to start teaching English at the age of four. Because of that, they created a proposal:

From 3 to 16	Basque language would be the main language
From 8 to 16	Start with the Spanish subject
From 4 to 16	Control of the English language
From 12 to 16	Start with the French language