Teacher Development

Introduction Language learning is required to investigate and gain knowledge of the outside world with the development of communication skills. At the educational level Colombia has a formative vision of great impact that allows access to knowledge with greater proportions in the process of acquiring a second language. Colombia is a country that wants to advance its educational and linguistic policies for the benefit of all who wish to be bilingual, taking into account the social, political and cultural aspects of the context and to have intercultural, professional and personal opportunities that contribute to globalization. Body   This has become a fundamental need for the development of peoples. In my personal experience I can say that, in order to carry out higher studies in person, there were economic difficulties, family support and personal motivation moving away from my personal project, but the opportunity came to my life to study virtually thanks...

MAIRA GISSELE 5) Question 5: What are the differences and similarities between foreign language education and bilingual education? In the world we meet the foreign language education and the bilingual education, many people have the idea it is the same, or one sitter than othe, but in this essay we will are talking about the similarities and differences of this two. For meet the differences and similarities, we star meeting the fundaments of each one, inside the bilingual find the individual monolinguals and bilinguals. Bilinguals may form a distinct language group as a majority or a minority. Bilinguals and multilinguals within a country may be analyzed as a distinct group.  Something interesting about bilingual is the dimension that Valdés and Figueroa (1994) suggest that bilinguals are classified by sixth dimension: 1. age 2. Ability 3 balance of two languages 4. Development 5. So, the main would be bilingual education is a teacher teaches in Two Languag...

JULY ALEJANDRA VERGARA Becoming bilingual is a challenge for many schools around the world. Schools implement a foreign language in their syllabus   in order to promote bilingualism,   Learning a foreign language can be   one of the route that can be followed to acquire a second language but it is not always so positive. Children or adults who, despite extensive foreign language learning in school (and the extensive research on second language acquisition), only a small proportion of children learning a foreign language become functionally and fluently bilingual.  It is important to know reasons for such failure: : the emphasis on reading and writing rather than on authentic communication; having a low aptitude to learn a second language; a lack of motivation and interest, and a lack of opportunity to practice second language skills. The age is also one of another popular reason, because   that is, believing that it is easier to learn a language when someo...