03908nam 22006614a 450 991081506120332120200520144314.01-280-82855-297866108285551-85359-820-810.21832/9781853598203(CKB)1000000000245103(EBL)235032(OCoLC)475941400(SSID)ssj0000111467(PQKBManifestationID)11806624(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111467(PQKBWorkID)10080887(PQKB)10956934(MiAaPQ)EBC235032(DE-B1597)514085(OCoLC)1078915398(DE-B1597)9781853598203(Au-PeEL)EBL235032(CaPaEBR)ebr10110154(CaONFJC)MIL82855(OCoLC)60591688(EXLCZ)99100000000024510320041112d2005 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrBilingual education in South America /edited by Anne-Marie de Mejia1st ed.Clevedon ;Buffalo Multilingual Mattersc20051 online resource (151 p.)Bilingual education and bilingualism ;50"The contents of this book also appear in the journal Bilingual education and bilingualism, vol. 7, no. 5"--T.p. verso.1-85359-819-4 Includes bibliographical references.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 StoriesThe 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.Bilingual education and bilingualism ;50.Education, BilingualSouth AmericaCross-cultural studiesBilingualismSouth AmericaCross-cultural studiesEducation, BilingualBilingualism370.117/098De Mejia Anne-Marie1948-0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815061203321Bilingual education in South America3935056UNINA