Education for Bilingualism: Connecting Spanish and English from the Curriculum, into the Classroom, and Beyond

dc.creator	Ordóñez Claudia Lucía
dc.date	2011-11-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:25:30Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:25:30Z
dc.identifier	1657-0790
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8783e5ae84dd4373ac20f908fa397642
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/30172
dc.description	<p>I present here the results of a qualitative research study on the impact of a curriculum that connects learning events in Spanish and English in authentic communicative performances during its first year of use in a private school in a medium-size Colombian city. I did discourse analysis of interviews with participating teachers and class observations including small in-situ interviews with teachers and students. They revealed positive changes in the language learning environments of the school, the teachers’ ideas about language and language learning, and the students’ communicative skills and ways of learning. I use these results to introduce the concept of education for bilingualism to replace that of bilingual education we use in Colombia. I find the practices of the latter ineffective in our mostly monolingual context.</p><p> </p><p>Presento aquí los resultados de una investigación cualitativa sobre el impacto de un currículo que conecta eventos de aprendizaje en español e inglés en desempeños auténticos comunicativos durante su primer año de uso en un colegio privado de una ciudad intermedia colombiana. Hice un análisis discursivo de entrevistas con los maestros participantes y observaciones de clase que incluyeron pequeñas entrevistas insitu con maestros y alumnos. El análisis revela cambios positivos en los ambientes de aprendizaje de lengua del colegio, las ideas de los maestros sobre la lengua y su aprendizaje, las habilidades comunicativas de los alumnos y sus formas de aprender. Uso estos resultados para introducir el concepto de educación para el bilingüismo, en contraposición al de educación bilingüe que usamos en Colombia, cuyas prácticas encuentro inapropiadas para nuestro contexto, mayoritariamente monolingüe.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
dc.relation	http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/25704
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1657-0790
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 147-161 (2011)
dc.subject	Bilingual curriculum, bilingual education, bilingualism in a monolingual context, education for bilingualism, research on bilingual curriculum.
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Education for Bilingualism: Connecting Spanish and English from the Curriculum, into the Classroom, and Beyond
dc.type	article