33.759, Books: Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme: Gomes

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:55:35
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme: Gomes

 


Title: Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme 
Subtitle: An evaluation of the early stages 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/introduction-of-a-wapishana-english-bilingual-education-programme-an-evaluation-of-the-early-stages 


Author: Adrian Sydney Gomes

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934001 Pages: 417 Price: Europe EURO 40


Abstract:

This dissertation evaluates a Wapishana-English bilingual education programme
that has been advocated for by the Wapishana community and approved by the
Ministry of Education, currently piloted in three nursery schools in Guyana,
beginning September 2018. This evaluation strives to determine what practices
promote biliterate, bilingual, intercultural and academically oriented
education for bilingual children, with an eye to improving existing practices
of the above-mentioned programme.

The programme seems to have progressed satisfactorily, as evinced in/evidenced
by the increased use of the Wapishana language by the children and their
growing interest in and interaction with culturally-relevant materials.
Although the children’s native language together with their cultural context
is incorporated into the curriculum, the initial teaching of literacy seems to
employ the simultaneous use of Wapishana and English as languages of
instruction. Given the fact that the first (and therefore stronger) language
of the children is Wapishana, a sequential rather than a simultaneous approach
should be followed, whereby education should first immerse the students in
their mother tongue and only later complement it with English. Another reason
for the sequential approach is that the teaching of oral English (their second
language) should be treated as a separate component in the stages of the
programme. The study also proposes a five-part instructional approach that is
likely to accelerate second language learners’ academic development. This
study offers a conceptual model and some recommendations to improve existing
practices so that the Wapishana-English bilingual education programme is
meaningfully integrated into the mainstream curriculum.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Wapishana (wap)


Written In: English  (eng)

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