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The purpose of this study was to inspect this country’s special language education model. The study was designed as a case study and data were gathered with document analysis. Curriculums and other publications were analyzed with context analysis technique. The findings showed that the Swiss language teaching model aims to raise plurilingual children who are open to other cultures. Also, common points of languages and cultures are always stressed. Not having a single official language, Switzerland has citizens who can speak more than one language with each other. New methods like Communicative, content and task-based techniques are used in language teaching.  \nKeywords: language education teaching, language, teaching model, Switzerland, teaching  \nINTRODUCTION  \nWhen you sit in your seat at a train in Switzerland and listen to the people, you can hear a lot of languages and dialects. Then a train conductor comes and speaks with you not only in German or English but also Italian and French. The case is the same as a waiter or a salesman. After finishing compulsory education, a Swiss student can speak at least his/her native language, another country’s official language and English.  \nSwitzerland and the Swiss educational system are doing very well. Although the country has very few natural resources, the economy is fairly stable and hardly affected by economic crises. The unemployment rate has for many years remained around 3.5 -4%, which is very low in comparison with other countries. Switzerland faces high amounts of immigration and its population currently consists of 22% of foreigners, speaking many different languages in addition to the 4 officiallanguages. Nevertheless, the difficulties surging in the educational system are well coped with (Frei, 2011) .  \nThe most important problem for Switzerland seems the immigrants and integration. The policymakers are aware of these problems and trying to provide an education with equal rights. PISA showed Switzerland as being among the 10% of countries showing the least equity in terms not only of the reading disadvantage of non-native students, but also concerning differences between the top and bottom quarter of parents’ occupational status and the distribution of teacher qualifications. The very low equity on the first two dimensions is due to the widespread selectiveness of school systems that leads to a segregation of schools where low-status and/or foreign-born students are overrepresented in lower tracks and high-status and/or native students in higher tracks. PISA has shown, that native students have better test results than non-natives (Fredriksson, Holzer, McCluskey-Cavin & Taube, 2009) .  \nWhat makes Swiss Education System unique? That question has many answers but the first one of them is “There is no single education system in Switzerland. In fact, there are 26 of them.” As the country run with the federal system. The decisions about education are taken by local authorities.  \nThere are 26 cantons and therefore 26 ministries of education which take into account the cultural differences between them.  \nThe state can be divided into 4 different linguistic and cultural areas. These areas are byzantine in some districts but can be understood by language shift. %63 of the Swiss people speaks Swiss German which is the largest language population in the country. The second language group is French speakers with the percentage of %22,7 and the third group speaks Italian (% 8.4) . The smallest group consists of Romansh speakers with the percentage of % 0.6 (Wikipedia, 2018)  \nThe cantons have their own official languages. Cantons, close to Germany and Austria gives education in G","cbCaiqxbNpKWcsuM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqxbNpKWcsuM","pdf",583802,12,"English","# Introduction\n## Switzerland’s multilingual education context\n## Equity, integration, and educational selectiveness\n## Federal structure and cantonal language policies\n## School language zones and English as a subject\n## Multilingualism in daily public and private life","[{\"question\":\"What research method is used to study Switzerland’s language education model?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses a case study design, with data gathered through document analysis. Curricula and other publications are analyzed using contextual analysis techniques.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of the Swiss language teaching model?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to raise plurilingual children who are open to other cultures, while stressing common points between languages and cultures.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Switzerland’s federal system influence education and language instruction?\",\"answer\":\"Education decisions are taken by local authorities, and there are 26 cantons with their own educational approaches. Instruction follows the language zones, using the official languages of Switzerland and often including a second official language and English.\"}]","A Successful Language Teaching Model - Switzerland Case | PDF",1792072957]