Bilingual education in South America / edited by Anne-Marie de Mejia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Mejía, Anne-Marie, Author.

Contributor:

Mejía, Anne-Marie de, 1948-

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 50.

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--South America--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Bilingual.

Bilingualism--South America--Cross-cultural studies.

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The development of bilingual education in South America can be traced back to the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese colonisers in the 15th and 16th centuries, when Catholic missionaries began their evangelisation of the indigenous peoples using local vernaculars, as well as Latin, Spanish and Portuguese. Traditionally, debate on bilingual education has been conducted in two separate arenas: majority language contexts involving international languages, such as English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and minority community contexts aimed at maintaining native Amerindian languages as well as the different Sign Languages of the South American Deaf communities. This book presents an integrated vision of bilingual education in six South American nations: three Andean countries, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and three ‘Southern Cone’ countries, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. It includes work carried out in minority as well as majority language contexts, referring to developments in the fields of indigenous, Deaf, and international bilingual and multilingual provision.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Language Policy and Local Planning in South America: New Directions for Enrichment Bilingual Education in the Andes

Rethinking Bilingual Education in Peru: Intercultural Politics, State Policy and Indigenous Rights

Bilingual Deaf Education in the South of Brazil

Bilingual Education in Colombia: Towards an Integrated Perspective

The Evolution of Bilingual Schools in Argentina

English Immersion in Paraguay: Individual and Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Learning and Use

A Look at Early Childhood Writing in English and Spanish in a Bilingual School in Ecuador

EFL and Native Spanish in Elite Bilingual Schools in Colombia: A First Look at Bilingual Adolescent Frog Stories

Notes:

"The contents of this book also appear in the journal Bilingual education and bilingualism, vol. 7, no. 5"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610828555

9781280828553

1280828552

9781853598203

1853598208

OCLC:

475941400