Bilingual Education in Guatemala

Critical Research Issues in Bilingual Secondary Education

Researchers continue to be interested in those subjects generally regarded as fundamental to bilingual education: second language acquisition, biliteracy, curriculum development, dual language pedagogy, the relation of first and second language development, assessment of language development in bilinguals, and others. Studies in these areas should and no doubt will continue. My task in this pre...

Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Gender and Ethnicity in Guatemala

Not much is known about the process of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in the developing world, mainly due to the lack of longitudinal datasets. There is however reason to believe that the high degree of inequality as well as stratification prevalent in developing countries may contribute to greater persistence in the intergenerational transmission of opportunities. If ...

Distance education with tutoring improves diarrhea case management in Guatemala.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of distance education in diarrhea and cholera case management on the quality of physicians' and nurses' practice. DESIGN The pre-post panel, program and control group design used trained physician observers to measure if doctors and nurses complied with case management standards. Extended observations and client exit interviews were used to analyze audience bi...

Bilingual Education for China’s Ethnic Minorities

Bilingual education searching for promising didactic proposals

In the Basque context, the English-French bilingual education systems from Canada and Quebec are considered an indispensable reference for the Basque-Spanish and Basque-French bilingual schools, which, for the approximately last 40 years, constitute a keystone for the revitalization process of the Basque language (Zalbide, 1998). One of the crucial contributions of English-French bilingual educ...