ae7608919301d6ba1f-ce20241107091755584 chitu:chitu chitkarauniversitypublications@chitkara.edu.inWEB-FORM Issues and Ideas in Education IIE 23207655 23208805 10.15415/iie https://iie.chitkara.edu.in/ 09 04 2019 09 04 2019 7 2 10.15415/iie.2019.72 https://iie.chitkara.edu.in/2019/vol-7-no-2-2019/ Bilingual Education in Spain: An Analysis of L2 Methodological Requirements and Non-Linguistic Disciplines Within Primary Education Legislation University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Carlos III, CP 45071, Toledo, Spain Gema Alcaraz-Mármol https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7703-3829 María Victoria Guadamillas Gómez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Carlos III, CP 45071, Toledo, Spain This article analyses the main legislation in Spain regarding Bilingual Education in the stage of Primary Education. Firstly, it divides Spanish regions into monolingual and bilingual. Later, it deals with the main legislation enforced in Primary Education, and carefully analyses three main aspects: teachers’ L2 level, teachers’ methodological requirements, and the non-linguistic discipline or disciplines included in bilingual programs together with the subjects’ language or languages of delivery and assessment. The first aspect, L2, is labelled following the different levels of the European Framework of Languages. As for teaching methodology, information has been classified as “not mentioned”, “recommended” or “required”. With regards to subjects, there are four different labels: “compulsory”, “optional”, “not mentioned”, and “not specified”. A high degree of heterogeneity is observed in two of the three areas analyzed. These differences among regions do not seem to be connected with their monolingual or bilingual nature. Finally yet importantly, it should be assumed that India and Spain are not close realities in some aspects. However, the study described above might help researchers, teachers or educational authorities to reflect upon some issues which are derived from CLIL(Content and Language Integrated Learning) methodology implementation in schools. 09 04 2019 09 04 2019 53 63 10.15415/iie.2019.72006 https://iie.chitkara.edu.in/2019/bilingual-education-in-spain-an-analysis-of-l2-methodological-requirements-and-non-linguistic-disciplines-within-primary-education-legislation/