Bilingual education programmes

Bilingual education programmes

The principal goal is to promote different degrees of bilingualism among students

Principal common to all of them is that additional language learning is

Implicit

Incidental

I.E.

I.E.

Monoglosic

Four main types were posited by Baker (1996)

Bilingualism

Bilingualism

I.E.

• Poly-directional
• CLIL and CLIL-type
• Multiple multilingual

Subtractive Bilingual Ed.

Additive Bilingual Ed.

• Inmersion revitalization
• Developmental

Monolingualism

Bilingualism

• Transitional

• Maintenance
• Prestigious
• Inmersion

Recursive Bilingual Ed.

Dynamic Bilingual Ed.

Heteroglossic

García (2009) added more types

I.E.

Monolingualism

Inmersion

Language 1 first year

• Transitional

- Widely used and most successful forms of bilingual education

- Variations of inmersion programmes:

1. Early inmersion programmes.
2. Delayed inmersion.
3. Total and partial inmersion.

Language 2 enviromental majority language

Monolingualism

Bilingualism

I.E.

Maintenance

Bilingualism

Prestigious

Preserve minority language spoken at home

• Maintenance
• Prestigious
• Inmersion

Students learn 2 languages separetly

I.E.

I.E.

Bilingualism

CLIL models

Developmental

- Normally consist in teaching and learning curricular content through the use of an additional language

• Submersion
• Developmental

- Offers minority language children instructions in their L1

- Psycological benefits, can positively make an impact on their sense of cultural identity

I.E.

Submersion

Bilingualism

Instructions in L2 but students speak minority languages.

Poly-directional

Bilingualism

- Created to build on linguistic heterogeneity of different social context

Multilingual

• Poly-directional
• CLIL and CLIL-type
• Multiple multilingual

- Reconceptualising Language Learning.

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- Different language profiles.

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