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Bilingual Education in Dominant Languages in South America

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Bilingual and Multilingual Education

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This discussion of the development of bilingual education in dominant languages in South America focuses on the evolution of studies from relatively early attempts to get to grips with differing types of bilingual provision in international languages for different populations. The main contribution section initially examines aspects of program development and evaluation in two different types of immersion programs in Uruguay. This is followed by considerations on the development of literacy and oracy, both at primary and secondary school level, in Ecuador, Colombia, and Paraguay. The third part in this section talks about the sociocultural dimensions of bilingual education programs in dominant languages, particularly in relation to the construction of attitudes and identities. There follows a discussion on work in progress in the areas of links between bilingual education for dominant language speakers and speakers of indigenous languages, as well as considerations on teacher education for bilingual programs in Argentina and in Brazil. Finally, some of the main difficulties are discussed and the chapter finishes with indications of future directions in the area.

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Notes

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    Author’s translation of this and subsequent quotations in Spanish in the original.

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    For purposes of this discussion, biliteracy may be taken as “any and all instances in which communication occurs in two (or more) languages in or around writing” (Hornberger and Skilton-Sylvester 2000, pp. 96–98).

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  1. CIFE-Centro de Investigación y Formación en Educación, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

    Anne-Marie de Mejía

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  1. The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, USA

    Ofelia García

  2. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

    Angel M. Y. Lin

  3. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen May

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de Mejía, AM. (2017). Bilingual Education in Dominant Languages in South America. In: García, O., Lin, A., May, S. (eds) Bilingual and Multilingual Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02258-1_31

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