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Hayes, Katherine; Rueda, Robert; Chilton, Susan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This article contains a description of the Dual Proficiency (DP) program in an urban elementary school located in the heart of a large south-western city, as well as the teachers who designed and now implement DP, and the immigrant community participating by choice in DP. We write from a context where, ironically, the number of English language…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Academic Discourse, Language Dominance, Second Language Learning
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Patthey-Chavez, G. G. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
A discussion of language policy formation and planning in Mexico focuses on its multilingual/multicultural character and covers the following: turn from national integration to ethnic revival; indigenous successes following the Declaration of Patzcuaro; some problems and solutions regarding the current bilingual/bicultural education policy.…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism
Zuniga, Madeleine, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This document is a compilation of 20 papers from a seminar on educational policy and strategy for educating the indigenous peoples of Latin America and Mexico. There is a growing awareness among linguistics and anthropology specialists and educators of the necessity to validate education that respects the values of an indigenous culture. This…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Cultural Influences