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We're going to be very brief.

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We're just about to close this second international conference

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on bilingual education and educational centers.

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And in the first place, I'd like to thank our speakers,

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DeCoyle, Lid King, Javier Hizbet, Fred Genesee,

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who've been here, some for the second time,

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to share all their knowledge and their insights with us.

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And I'd also like to thank all the other participants.

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that's really very important for us, the teachers,

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the students, researchers, and policymakers.

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And just to point out that the organization of an event

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of this type is no easy matter.

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In that case, a special, special mention

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for all those from both the Language Center

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at this university and the Consejeria de Madrid, who've

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worked long, long hours to make this second conference

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a success.

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I really sincerely hope that this conference

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This has fully lived up to the expectations of everybody,

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and it's been useful, and it's been a worthwhile experience.

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I believe that during these three days,

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we've been able to see examples of excellent contributions,

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interesting experiences, and examples of good practice.

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Thank you all very much for being with us,

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and the floor is yours, Rocío.

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ROCÍO GARCÍA- Buenas tardes a todos.

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Buenas tardes a los ponentes de Madrid y fuera de Madrid,

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the attendees to all of you who at this time make an effort for a Saturday afternoon to be here

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learning once again I promise to be very brief so that we can all go and enjoy the little

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that is left of the weekend but the truth is that for me it is especially grateful to close this

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second international congress of bilingual teaching in educational centers and as it could not

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I am going to start by thanking the University of Rey Juan Carlos for being a fundamental part of this conference.

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Not only for participating in the organization but also for giving us this magnificent campus

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so that this macro congress can be developed in it, which I join for the first time,

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but I believe that it is a congress of a lot of people, a lot of organization and that carries a lot of work behind it.

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Also, of course, I would like to thank all the sponsors with whom we have spoken.

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Without them, this congress would probably be simply a project

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and not the success that has been proven over these three intense days.

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Throughout these three days, there have been many very interesting presentations

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that will probably serve as a reflection and starting point for numerous investigations,

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investigations from very different fields, from the point of view of the research of the university professor,

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from the point of view of the teachers of the schools and institutes and also from all those who participate in the educational field from the administration.

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For me it is very gratifying, yesterday at dinner when I was talking to several people and they told me that these congresses serve to, in some cases,

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strengthen the development of bilingual teaching in some autonomous communities and in others to put it into practice,

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because it is still an incipient situation and from the congress they obtained a lot of ideas

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for this to become a reality, the truth is that it is a wonder and after these three days

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because I have the feeling that it is a success it is a success for more than 100 speakers who have

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participated in 22 communications 16 workshops six panels the truth is that that is why I said before

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of a macro conference the level of coordination that has to exist for this to work that it has

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the assistance it has had because it is wonderful and there I also wanted to say not only of course

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those who have actively participated but also the assistants 500 assistants is a

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real bunch of people who are interested in bilingual teaching and at this moment I do

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I want to refer, especially for being the community, to the teachers, to the directors, coordinators of the schools and bilingual institutes, both public and concerted.

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Because without their effort, without their daily work, the bilingual project would not be the reality and the success it is today.

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I'm an economist and I can't avoid thinking in economic terms, so I thought that what bilingual teachers and institutes can really achieve is to make themselves available,

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to open a framework of opportunities for Madrid students and students in general who used to have us.

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what you allow is that the freedom of movement of people throughout the European Union and beyond

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in the whole world because it is a reality and that is a wonder is how Fred said you have

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become leaders in leaders to follow because the truth is that you give them an opportunity

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that did not exist before so that each student can study at the university that is more in line

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with their interests and can work the next day where I have an opportunity without

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a language barrier that prevents access to it therefore thank you very much because you are

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the leaders of future generations and as a mother I feel part of it too

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it is not a I do not discover anything new if I say that from the community of madrid bilingual teaching

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is a priority it has been started in 2004-2005 and to this day it is still the data that

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are known to all they put it in the manifesto more than 270 and no more not exactly 276

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bilingual public schools 64 bilingual public institutes 96 concerted schools are the proof

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of this which allows more than 100,000 students who can have an education sorry bilingual

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English but being aware of it because we have no choice but to continue

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working on it and in fact last week the new convocation of

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bilingual schools with which 24 new bilingual schools will be part of

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the 2012-2013 academic course at least that opportunity will be opened which

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That means that more or less a third of the public schools students can do their bilingual teaching in Spanish and English.

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This is not something other than the manifestation that for the community of Madrid, bilingual teaching is a priority and a political priority within its educational policy.

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They show all the efforts, not only economic, but also time, effort, materials that are made so that it is true.

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And this is because, in reality, from the Comunidad de Madrid we think at all times about a quality education

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that facilitates young people who have it so difficult today to enter the labor market.

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to be able to enter. They know, we are aware that the language of any language is needed, especially English, and therefore no kind of effort is going to be made.

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I'm going to finish, but before I finish, I think it's my duty to thank all the members, all the people who have worked hard since the Council of Employment Education,

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It means a lot of hours out of their working hours, out of what corresponded to them, for this congress to be a success.

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That is why I want to publicly thank all of them. I could not name names, but there are many.

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I see them here in the front row, but there are many more, apart from the ones I see here.

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I just want to reiterate that I invite you to come back to the next International Congress of Bilingualism,

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de Bilingüismo que esperamos todos que tenga lugar el año que viene.

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Con estas palabras doy por clausurado el segundo congreso. Gracias.