Bilingual Education in South America / / Anne-Marie de Mejía.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: de Mejía, Anne-Marie,
• MitwirkendeR: Banfi, Cristina,; Day, Raymond,; García, María Elena,; King, Kendall,; Mejía, Anne-Marie de,; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía,; Quadros, Ronice Muller,; Simpson, JoEllen M.,; Skliar, Carlos,; Spezzini, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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