ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an ongoing project developing a multilingual curriculum, which believes lends itself to a significant shift from monolingual to multilingual foreign language education. As the project continues, the Integrated Foreign Languages Curriculum (IFLC) database informed by additional, empirical data, extracted from the KPG corpus, which contains graded scripts produced by candidates participating in the national foreign language examinations. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) also made a valuable contribution by distinguishing between the concept of multilingualism and that of plurilingualism. The CEFR's notion of plurilingual education is useful because it means to develop the learner's 'ability to perceive and mediate the relationships which exist among languages and cultures'. A language education project that might adopt a multi-literacies perspective to motivate learners to perform communicative tasks using all the resources available to them. The multilingual database documenting the curriculum level descriptors ideally serve as a tool for syllabus design, and development of novel teaching/learning material.
