Open AccessEducation for Bilingualism in International Languages in a Monolingual Socio-Linguistic Context
Author(s) -
Claudia Lucía Ordóñez Ordóñez
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
lenguaje
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2539-3804
pISSN - 0120-3479
DOI - 10.25100/lenguaje.v36i2.4884
Subject(s) - neuroscience of multilingualism , foreign language , bilingual education , linguistics , context (archaeology) , population , political science , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , geography , philosophy , demography , archaeology
In Colombia, both national policies and individual school policies concerning bilingual education in international languages have been poorly supported on the existing knowledge on bilingualism and first language acquisition. This article looks critically at the type of knowledge that should assist decision makers when designing proposals aimed at developing foreign language communicative skills in the school setting and for the vast majority of the Colombian population, to an extent students can be considered fully bilingual.