The role of auxiliary conversation in the development of linguistic and cultural competences in bilingual programs in Primary Education

 

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Autores: Bolarín Martínez, Mª José, Porto Currás, Mónica, Lova Mellado, María
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2021
Descripción:Programmes of bilingual education are becoming prevalent in Spanish primary schools, this implying the incorporation of language assistants into teaching. The objectives of this article are: (1) To explore the role played by these lan-guage assistants in primary schools in the Region of Murcia, Spain). (2) To an-alyse the coordination between teachers and language assistants. (3) To ex-plore their appraisals of such a contribution to linguistic communication and the cultural competence of students. In the light of the data obtained, our re-sults suggest the relevance of language assistants in the mentioned pro-grammes, this implying that these need improvements having two major axes: a) the language assistant, his/her role, and his/her training; b) his/her work con-text, with special emphasis on coordination and recognition of teachers.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/47178
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/47178
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Primary education; bilingualism; teaching; training; methodology
Educación primaria; bilingüismo; profesorado; formación; metodología.