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de Mejia, Anne-Marie – TESOL Journal, 1998
Alternating between languages in the construction of stories offers students creative opportunities for bilingual learning. Describes how a storyteller can code switch to tell stories to children who are becoming bilingual and presents an example from early-immersion classrooms in Colombia, discussing code switching and discourse control, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language)
Gorden, Raymond L. – 1968
This study, based on interviews with North American students and Peace Corps trainees in Bogota, and their host families, professors, and other Colombians in contact with the students, attempts to define the non-linguistic barriers to cross-cultural communication between North Americans and Colombians. The purpose of the study is to gather data…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Context
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Hornberger, Nancy H.; King, Kendall A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Examines two initiatives to revitalize Quechua, the language of the Incas: Bolivia's 1994 reform incorporating the provision of bilingual intercultural education; and a community-based effort to incorporate Quichua as a second language instruction in a school in Ecuador. Points out that census records and sociolinguistic studies document a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Educational Change, Ethnicity
Morgenstern, Douglas; Murray, Janet H. – Humanities, 1995
Describes an interactive computer simulation where the student assumes the role of a reporter searching for a missing biologist in Columbia. The search involves simulated news broadcasts, documentary footage, and interviews with Colombians, all in Spanish. The student accesses help via electronic archives (translated words) and faxing the editor.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Cybernetics
Stansfield, Charles W. – 1972
This study describes and analyzes the state of English teaching in Colombian public secondary schools in 1971. Examined are the present status of the Colombian school system, the English curriculum, the attitudes of English students, and the organizations which contribute to the study of English in Colombia. The methods used to teach the language…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Curriculum Guides, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria
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