, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you. Just so the committee can be clear on this point, and to summarise what you've said about the primarily Welsh category, there is no minimum set out for that category, and the point that you made, Gwennan, at the very end there is that there is a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you. I think we'll return to the workforce in due course. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
I agree. A final question from me, if I may, on the CEFR, and it's interesting to hear that you, Angharad, have done some research specifically on this. In the draft Bill, there are benchmarks in terms of attainment levels. We're talking about B2 for all…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
So, what you're saying is that there needs to be investment in training in childcare, but also in the education workforce.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
On that final point then—a question for CYDAG, but I'd be happy to hear from you too—how much of a challenge will this be for our schools and for teachers, particularly, who will have to assess children according to an entirely new framework?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you very much, and thank you for your evidence and for the evidence that you'll provide, I'm sure, later. In this set of questions, I'm just going to focus on the CEFR framework. It's a new concept for us in Wales, of course, outside Welsh for adults…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Thank you. Just to go back to those final points, given that the Welsh language is a compulsory subject in our schools, and some would argue that we're already providing about 10 per cent as regards teaching Welsh, is this 10 per cent sufficient in your view?…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Thank you very much. Just on the back of the question from Tom, Dr Enlli, in your evidence, you have noted—and I'm just going to quote here—that the minimum 10 per cent requirement for primarily English, partly Welsh schools is vague and needs further…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Okay, thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
No problem. Dr Enlli particularly, in your evidence, you set out some doubts around children achieving C1 or C2 level in Welsh-medium schools. Can you expand a little on the basis for those comments?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Sorry, I didn't know if Gwenno wanted to come in on that point.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Thank you very much. Specifically, in your experience of studying bilingualism at a European level and your understanding of the CEFR framework, is it realistic to expect a pupil who is in a primarily English school to reach the B2 level in spoken Welsh by…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 3
Good morning to you. I'm Cefin Campbell, Member of the Senedd. Thank you very much for the evidence that you have submitted; that is very useful. I want to ask a general question to start with on the CEFR, and then perhaps more detailed questions on that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Yn fyr iawn, os gallaf fynd yn ôl i'r ateb rhoddoch chi ynglŷn â beth rŷch chi'n ei weld yn broblematig, sef gwahaniaethu rhwng addysg Gymraeg ac addysg trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, beth ŷch chi'n teimlo gallai fod canlyniadau anfwriadol hynny…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Yes. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Os caf i jest gydio yn y pwynt olaf: ydych chi'n gweld gwerth mewn gosod targedau penodol ar gyfer datblygu'r gweithlu, fel bod hynny yn nod i'r Llywodraeth?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thank you very much. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
—ond hefyd ysgrifennu, gwrando, darllen, ac yn y blaen. Felly, gallai person fod ar wahanol lefelau ar bob un o'r sgiliau yna yw'r pwynt.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
And, of course, the CEFR measures a range of skills as well, not just the ability to speak—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
And the final question is: do you see a role for yourself as commissioner in terms of facilitating awareness of the CEFR if this became part of our education system?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
As it happens, in last week's session the Cabinet Secretary responsible for the Welsh language said that almost everyone can speak some Welsh in Wales, unless they've just arrived here. So, do you think that the CEFR can reflect that broad range of people who…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
I have a block of questions around the CEFR, the common European framework of reference. You've noted in your evidence some comments on that. Do you believe that the CEFR in general terms is appropriate for the situation here in Wales? Because it has been a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thank you. If I could come in on the back of that last question on language standards—and thank you for the evidence that you've submitted; it's very useful to us as a committee—do you see any way in which the influence of language standards, which do have…
