Pre - Service teacher. Universidad el Bosque.

1. Viviana Guzman
Practice I
Universidad el Bosque
July 30th, 2015

2. Bilingualism
Beliefs Perceptions
Colombian
context
“Successful”
acquisition

3. Ministry of Education
Actions taken: polices
“Colombia Bilingual in
ten years”
“Estándares básicos de
competencias en lenguas
extranjeras: inglés.
Formar en lenguas
extranjeras: ¡el reto!”
Specialized documents
Point of reference, public
schools, Guided lines for
a “bilingual country”.

4. Bilingualism.
Butler and Hakuta
(2004). individuals or groups of people
who obtain the knowledge and use of more
than one language.
Bloomfield (1933): Bilingualism as
the capacity of having the control of two
languages as a native speaker.
Hakuta; 1996; McNamara;
1967 and others). and Hakuta (2004)
bilinguals are people who can use their skills
to communicate and/or
interact in oral or written form.

5. Bilingualeducation.
Schools where their mother
tongue is spoken
and the second is learned.
Bilingual education has been
reduced to
education programs with two
languages
Pluralism and communication
of multicultural societies..

6. Whatweteach.
Learner is influenced by the way they were
taught
“attitudes, beliefs and perceptions
as a set of mental,
describe and define the structure and
content of mental states through thought to
drive a person’s actions”
Beliefs play an
important role in the practices

7. Students:
- Competent: Not making
mistakes, almost perfect, avoid
subordination, never ending
process.
Awareness of: Syntax,
semantics, phonetics, grammar,
pragmatics.
Authors:
Native Like level, Aware of
strengths and weaknesses,
meaningful utterances,
proficiency levels.
What is our interpretation of
opinions and theories?
Bilingual master.

8. Bicultural reader.
Interpret,
understand and
respect L1 and L2.
Establishing
connections.
Cultures interacting.
Not reinforcing
stereotypes.
Tolerating and
learning.
Going further.
Bathia and Ritchie.
2004
The context
in which a language
is used often adds
further complexity…

9. Masters of:
- L1 and L2.
- Culture readers.
- Tolerant,
empathetic and
respectful.
- Meet high
standards.
- Don’t get
frustrated.
- Keep balance in
between L1 and L2.
- Cultural Entities.
- How does our
bilingual concept
permeate our
practices and
students’ lives?

10. Thanks for watching.