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Bilingual education

Index of SIL publications on Bilingual education listed by country.

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General works

• Anderson, Ronald J. 1996. "Sheltered instruction for language minority populations [Introducing the companion article by Judy Law]."
• Chen Fu Long. 2000. "Huxiang yicun lilun yu shuangyu jiaoxue (The interdependence hypothesis)."
• Gfeller, Elisabeth and Clinton D. W. Robinson. 1998. "Which language for teaching? The cultural messages transmitted by the languages used in education."
• Hoatson, Kristen. 2001. Review of: Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism, by Colin Baker.
• Klaassens, Anne. 1990. "SIL involvement in bilingual education past-present-future."
• Law, Judy. 1996. "Sheltered instruction: An introduction."
• McCracken, Scott. 1999. "Introduction to a bilingual schooling typology through three examples."
• Mitchell, Penelope L. 1998. Review of: Voices from the language classroom: qualitative research in second language education, Kathleen M. Bailey and David Nunan, editors.
• Ottaviano, Ida. 1990. Review of: a school divided: An ethnography of bilingual education in a Chinese community, by Grace Pung Guthrie.
• Parkhurst, Stephen J. 1993. Review of: Beyond language: Social and cultural factors in schooling language minority students, by Bilingual Education Office, California State Department of Education.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1960. "Toward a theory of change and bilingualism."
• Robinson, Clinton D. W. 1996. "Alfabetização nas línguas das minorias: Que esperanças?."
• Robinson, Clinton D. W. 1996. "Winds of change in Africa: Fresh air for African languages? Some preliminary reflections."
• Robinson, Jerry. 1982. Review of: Bilingual education: An experience in Peruvian Amazonia, Mildred L. Larson and Patricia M. Davis, editors.
• Wagner, W. John. 1995. Review of: Beyond the bilingual classroom: Literacy acquisition among Peruvian Amazon communities, by Barbara Trudell.
• Walter, Stephen L. 2000. "Explaining multilingual education: information on some tough questions."  
• Walter, Stephen L. 2003. "Does language of instruction matter in education?."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Tadadjeu, Maurice. 1990. Le defi de Babel au Cameroun.

Kenya

• Schroeder, Leila. 2001. "Mother-tongue education in schools in Tharaka language group of Kenya."

Mali

• Bühmann, Dörthe and Barbara Trudell. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  

Mozambique

• Heins, Barbara. 1999. "Why bilingual education? responses to three commonly raised objections."
• Heins, Barbara. 2003. "Para quê o ensino bilingue? Repostas a três objecções comuns."

Nigeria

• Aaron, Marianne. 1998. "A way to improve literacy in primary education in Nigeria."
• Ayoko, Oluremi B, John Danjuma, and E. Funke Ogundokun. 1993. "Nigerian teachers in bilingual classrooms."

Sudan

• Marshall, Jaqueline. 2005. The potential benefits and challenges of implementing bilingual education in primary schools in south Sudan.

Tanzania

• Halvorson, Marian. 1970. "An adult literacy program: Central Tanzania 1955-1968."

Americas

Bolivia

• Burns, Donald H. 1984. "Quechua/Spanish bilingual education and language policy in Bolivia (1977-1982)."
• Heaslip, Marion. 1969. La educación bilingue.
• Hoch, Barbara E. 1981. A comparison of Bolivian bilingual schools with Bolivian rural government schools in reading comprehension and arithmetic computation.
• Olson, Ronald D. 1977. "Hacia una valorización de lenguas nacionales minoritarias."

Brazil

• Alford, Margaret R. 1987. "Developing facilitative reading programmes in Third World countries: a culturally relevant programme for teaching reading in the mother tongue: the Karajá Indians of Brazil."
• Alford, Margaret R., compiler. 1987. Alguns métodos e estudos práticos de educação bilíngüe bicultural: Curso de lingüística e missiologia.
• Alford, Margaret Rut. 1998. "Ensino bilíngüe-bicultural: filosofia e métodos."
• Alford, Margaret Ruth. 1998. Alguns métodos e estudos práticos de educação bilíngüe intercultural.
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1975. "Some frequent and recurring fallacies concerning bilingual education."
• Kindell, Gloria E. 1978. "Bilingual education - an evaluation."
• Kindell, Gloria E. and Joan W. Jones. 1978. Educação indígena: Metodologia e programação.

Colombia

• Buenaventura, Edgar. 1980. "Dificultades de los indígenas cuibas para hablar español."
• Del Aguila, Walter. 1984. La educación indígena en Colombia: Un marco teórico.
• García P., Raul. 1992. Estilo cognoscitivo guahibo: Factores cognoscitivos y socioculturales que afectan el aprendizaje de niños guahibos.
• Kondo, Riena W. 1996. "Bridging between two worlds: a case history of the Cavasi Reservation."
• Morren, Diane and others. 2005. The San Andres, Providence, and Kathleen Islands Creole trilingual educational project.
• Morren, Diane and others. 2006. The San Andres, Providence, and Kathleen Islands Creole trilingual educational project 2000.
• Morren, Ronald C. 2001. "Creole-based trilingual education in the Caribbean archipelago of San Andres, Providence and Santa Catalina."
• Schauer, Junia G. 1985. Por que los yucunas necesitan una educación bilingüe-bicultural.
• Sosa, Marcelino. 1983. El Niño Guahibo y la educación bilingüe.

Ecuador

• Burns, Donald H. 1977. "El desarrollo de material didáctico en torno a la literatura oral andina."
• Burns, Nadine T. 1977. "Abreviando el proceso de la alfabetización en quechua."
• Turner, Glen D. 1964. "Indian assimilation and bilingual schools."

Guatemala

• Blackburn, Linda. 1983. "Literacy training for bilingual Mayans."
• Mayers, Marvin K. and Stephen L. Walter. 1981. Review of: Bilingual multicultural education and the professional: from theory to practice, Henry T. Trueba and Carol Barnett-Mizrahi, editors.
• Mayers, Marvin K. and Stephen L. Walter. 1981. Review of: Handbook of intercultural communication, Molefi Kete Asante, Eileen Newmark and Cecil A. Blake, editors.
• Mayers, Marvin K. and Stephen L. Walter. 1981. Review of: Helping kids learn multi-cultural concepts: a handbook of strategies, by Michael G. Pasternak, editor.
• Mayers, Marvin K. and Stephen L. Walter. 1981. Review of: Multicultural nonsexist education: a human relations approach, Nicholas Colangelo, Cecelia H. Foxley and Dick Dustin, editors.
• Morren, Ronald C. 1988. "Bilingual education curriculum development in Guatemala."
• Oltrogge, David F. 1980. "Linguistic interference: Some implications for bilingual education."
• Wendell, Margaret M. 1962. "En torno a un programa de alfabetización bilingüe: Un año en el proyecto de Tactic."

Jamaica

• Morren, Ronald C. and Diane M. Morren. 2007. "Are the goals and objectives of Jamaica's Bilingual Education Project being met?."  

Mexico

• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1975. "Some frequent and recurring fallacies concerning bilingual education."
• Wallis, Ethel E. 1953. "Problemas de aculturación implícitos en la educación indígena del otomí del Mezquital."
• Wallis, Ethel E. 1956. "Sociolinguistics in relation to Mezquital Otomi transition education."

Peru

• Backstrom, Peter C. 1993. Review of: Bilingual education and language maintenance: a southern Peruvian Quechua case, by Nancy H. Hornberger.
• Bergli, Ågot, compiler. 1990. Educación intercultural.  
• Bühmann, Dörthe and Barbara Trudell. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• Burns, Donald H. 1968. "Bilingual education in the Andes of Peru."
• Burns, Donald H. 1968. "Niños de la sierra peruana estudian en quechua para saber español."
• Burns, Donald H. 1971. Cinco años de educación bilingüe en los Andes del Perú, 1965-1970.
• Burns, Donald H. 1971. Five years of bilingual education in the Andes of Peru 1965-1970: final report on the five year bilingual education experiment in Ayacucho (1).
• Burns, Donald H. 1975. "Informe preliminar de la educación bilingüe de la sierra."
• Burns, Nadine T. 1970. "Materials for the bilingual schools of Ayacucho."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "El programa y el alumno."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "El programa y el maestro bilingüe."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "El programa y la comunidad."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "Elaborando libros de lectura."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "La planificación previa."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "Las escuelas bilingües: Los objetivos y su ejecución."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1979. "Los beneficios de la educación bilingüe."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "Preprogram planning."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "The benefits of bilingual education."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "The challenges of primer making."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "The program and the community."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "The program as it relates to the pupils."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "The program as it relates to the teacher."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1981. "The village schools: Goals and their implementation."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1987. "What we have learned about learning."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1988. Education for the future: Towards Spanish as a standard language curriculum for native American Peruvians.
• Davis, Patricia M. 1994. Literacy acquisition, retention, and usage: a case study of the Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon.
• Davis, Patricia M. 1996. "The personal face of literacy."
• Davis, Patricia M. 1996. Lo que hemos aprendido sobre al aprendizaje.
• Davis, Patricia M., Stephen G. Parker, and Cornelia N. Eilander. 1990. "Algunas diferencias entre el castellano y los idiomas vernáculos de la Amazonía peruana: Sugerencias para la educación bilingüe."  
• Davis, Patricia M., Stephen G. Parker, and Cornelia N. Eilander. 1990. "La cultura autóctona y algunas sugerencias para el aula bilingüe."  
• Davis, Patricia M.; Karen Coral and Alberto Poirier, translators. 1997. La enseñanza del castellano como segunda lengua entre los grupos etnolingüísticos de la Amazonia.  
• Davis, Patricia M.; Walter del Aguila, translator. 2002. Los Machiguengas aprenden a leer: breve historia de la educación bilingüe y el desarrollo communal entre los machiguengas del Bajo Urubamba.
• Eakin, Lucille, Patricia M. Davis, Stephen G. Parker, and Cornelia N. Eilander. 1990. "Estilos de aprendizaje y algunas sugerencias para la enseñanza bilingüe intercultural."  
• Easthouse, Linda O. 1996. "Education in South Conchucos Quechua."
• Easthouse, Linda Orr. 2003. Becoming bilingual is a way of life.  
• Escobar, Alberto. 1981. "Multilingualism and Peru."
• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 1954. "Informe sobre las escuelas bilingües y la obra del Instituto Lingüístico."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1973. "La educación bilingüe y los cambios en el diario vivir."  
• Jakway, Martha A. 1975. "La educación culturalmente adaptada."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1979. "Educación para adultos: Educación para la vida diaria."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1979. "Formación de supervisores vernáculo-hablantes."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1979. "La educación adaptada a la cultura."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1979. "Talleres para escritores nativos."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1981. "Adult education: Education for everyday living."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1981. "Culturally adapted education."
• Jakway, Martha A. 1981. "The development of vernacular speakers as supervisors."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1979. "Capacitando para capacitar: La clave para un programa en marcha."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1979. "El rol de las lenguas vernáculas frente a las lenguas de prestigio en la educación primaria."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1979. "Promoviendo la educación bilingüe por medio de conferencias de maestros."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1981. "Promoting bilingual education through teachers’ conferences."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1981. "The role of vernacular versus prestige languages in primary education."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1981. "Training to train: The key to an ongoing program."
• Larson, Mildred L. and Patricia M. Davis, editors. 1981. Bilingual education: An experience in Peruvian Amazonia.
• Larson, Mildred L., Olive A. Shell, and Mary Ruth Wise. 1979. "Estudio panorámico del programa de educación bilingüe en la selva peruana."
• Larson, Mildred L., Olive A. Shell, and Mary Ruth Wise. 1980. "Overview of the programme of bilingual education in the Peruvian jungle."
• Loos, Eugene E. 1981. "The application of linguistics to the preparation of didactic materials."
• Loos, Eugene E., Patricia M. Davis, and Mary Ruth Wise. 1976. El cambio cultural y el desarrollo integral de la persona: Exposición de la filosofía y los métodos del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en el Perú.
• Loos, Eugene E., Patricia M. Davis, and Mary Ruth Wise. 1981. "Cultural change and the development of the whole person: An exposition of the philosophy and methods of the Summer Institute of Linguistics."
• Loveland, Nancy J. 1996. "Elaboración de libros de lectura para usuarios en proceso de transición y transferencia."  
• Ortiz R., Alejandro. 1979. "Algunas consideraciones antropológicas sobre la educación bilingüe."
• Ortiz R., Alejandro. 1981. "Some anthropological considerations concerning bilingual education."
• Prado Pastor, Ignacio, Mildred L. Larson, Patricia M. Davis, and Marlene Ballena D., editors. 1979. Educación bilingüe: Una experiencia en la amazonía peruana.  
• Romero, Ezequiel. 1980. Pepe el travieso: Una contribución para la enseñanza del castellano como segunda lengua, y de su lecto-escritura a niños alfabetizados en el vernáculo.  
• Ross, David A. 1984. Review of: Bilingual education: An experience in Peruvian Amazonia, Mildred L. Larson and Patricia M. Davis, editors.
• Shell, Olive A. 1979. "Capacitación de maestros bilingües."
• Shell, Olive A. 1981. "The training of bilingual teachers."
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1954. "Informe sobre las escuelas bilingües y la obra del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano."
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1980. "Applied anthropology in the Amazon jungle."
• Tripp, Martha D. 1979. "La escritura creativa en las escuelas bilingües de los amuesha."
• Tripp, Martha D. 1981. "Creative writing in Amuesha bilingual schools."
• Trudell, Barbara L. 1990. "El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano y la educación bilingüe en le Perú: Una perspectiva."  
• Trudell, Barbara L. and Martha A. Jakway. 1990. "A sketch of SIL-prepared bilingual education materials in Peruvian Amazonia."
• Trudell, Barbara. 1993. "The dilemma of biliteracy in Peruvian Amazonia."
• Trudell, Barbara. 1995. "Literacy acquisition among Peruvian Amazon communities."
• Trudell, Barbara. 1995. "The Summer Institute of Linguistics and bilingual education in Peru: Philosophy and methods."
• Various authors. 1973. Programa de educación bilingüe de la selva.  
• Weber, David J. 1996. "Con solo seis letras."  
• Weber, Diana. 2000. "El programa LEELA: una alternativa para la educación bilingüe."
• Wipio D., Gerardo. 1979. "La educación en el pueblo aguaruna."
• Wipio D., Gerardo. 1981. "The history of education among the Aguaruna."
• Wise, Mary Ruth and Martha A. Jakway. 1980. "Educación bilingüe, estado de la cuestión: (2) Nosotros los aguaruna."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1969. "Utilizing languages of minority groups in a bilingual experiment in the Amazonian jungle of Peru."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1971. "Une expérience de bilinguisme au Pérou."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1991. "The old and the new in written indigenous literature of Peru."
• Wistrand, Lila. 1970. "Bilingual jungle school."
• Wroughton, James O. 1965. "La educación bilingüe en la selva peruana."

United States

• Bühmann, Dörthe and Barbara Trudell. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• Collins, Raymond and Gary H. Holthaus. 1972. "Education in the north: Its effect on Athapascan culture."
• Malone, Dennis L. 2001. Review of: Dual language education, by Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary.

Asia

China

• Cobbey, Heidi. 2007. "Challenges and prospects of minority bilingual education in China—an analysis of four projects."
• Geary, D. Norman and Yongrong Pan. 2003. "A bilingual education pilot project among the Kam people in Guizhou Province, China."  
• Milliken, Margaret E. 1995. "Shuang yu Jiaoxue dui zhongguo shaoshu minzu de biànli he xiwang (The benefits and implications of bilingual education for Chinese minorities)."
• Tan Hock Leong, William. 1997. Bilingual education for the Miao people of Guizhou province, China.
• Tan, William. 1995. Zou xiang shuangyu jiaoxue de daolu.

Indonesia

• Matthews, Delle P. 1983. "Language maintenance, shift and death and the implications for bilingual education."
• Ringenberg, Kay and others. 1996. "Biliteracy in rural settings: a look at some Irian Jaya literacy programs."
• Ringenberg, Kay. 2002. "Pengalihan keterampilan baca-tulis dwibahasa: meninjau perkembangan program belakangan ini."
• Said, M. Ide. 1990. "Pendidikan kedwibahasaan rancangan alternatif di dalam pelestarian bahasa daerah di Indonesia."

Malaysia

• Fuller, Eugenia. 1975. "The use of the vernacular in bilingual education."

Nepal

• Morton, Beth. 1976. "Applied linguistics - towards bilingual education programs for Nepal."

Philippines

• Dekker, Diane E. 2003. "A case study of the first language component bridging program in rural Philippines."
• Dekker, P. Gregory. 1999. "First language component literacy: a bridge over troubled waters."
• Hohulin, E. Lou. 1993. "The first language component bridging educational program (a preliminary report)."
• Hohulin, E. Lou. 1995. "The first language component: a bridging educational program."

Russian Federation

• Townsend, William Cameron and Elaine M. Townsend. 1975. The USSR as we saw it: From Armenia to Russia, many languages, much progress, sincere friendliness.
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1972. They found a common language: Community through bilingual education.
• Townsend, William Cameron. n.d.. Ils ont trouvé une langue commune: L’identité communautaire par l’education bilingue.

Taiwan

• Buckwalter, Jan K. and Gloria Lo Yi-Hsuan. 2002. "Emergent biliteracy in Chinese and English."

Thailand

• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1989. "Modern experiences with bilingual education."

Viet Nam

• Smith, Kenneth D. 1981. "Bilingual education in the Austronesian languages of Vietnam circa 1974."

Europe

Russian Federation

• Townsend, William Cameron and Elaine M. Townsend. 1975. The USSR as we saw it: From Armenia to Russia, many languages, much progress, sincere friendliness.
• Townsend, William Cameron. 1972. They found a common language: Community through bilingual education.
• Townsend, William Cameron. n.d.. Ils ont trouvé une langue commune: L’identité communautaire par l’education bilingue.

Pacific

Australia

• Crawford, David. 1982. Review of: Kulila on aboriginal education, by Max Hart.
• Evans, Margaret A. 1978. "Transition from Australian Aboriginal languages to English: As it applies to children in bilingual schools."
• Furby, Edward S. 1978. "Northern Territory bilingual education (with a preview of a selection of programmes in six other countries)."
• Harris, John and John R. Sandefur. 1983. "Creole languages and the use of Kriol in Northern Territory schools."
• Harris, Pamela J. 1977. "Vernacular literacy programme within bilingual education."
• Harris, Pamela J. 1977. "Vernacular literacy programs within bilingual education in Australian Aboriginal schools."
• Leeding, Velma J. 1976. "The linguist’s role in a bilingual education programme."
• Morton, Beth. 1975. "The phases of a bilingual education programme."
• Sandefur, John R. 1977. "Bilingual education for Aboriginal Australians."
• Sandefur, John R. 1982. "Kriol and the question of decreolization."
• Street, Chester and Lynette Street. 1993. "Literacy among the Murrinh-patha."

Papua New Guinea

• Ahai, Naihuwo. 1987. "In support of vernacular in education."
• Bickerton, Derek. 1975. "University-level courses in Pidgin & Creole."
• Bühmann, Dörthe and Barbara Trudell. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• Cates, Ann R. 1975. "Why teach first in the vernacular?."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1975. "Vernaculars as bridges to cross-cultural understanding."
• Garrett, Gertrude. 1997. Vernacular elementary education in Papua New Guinea.
• Harrison, J. Daniel. 1975. "Community education among the Guhu-Samanes."
• Hooley, Bruce A. 1976. "Bilingual education and literacy."
• Kemelfield, Graeme. 1982. "North Solomons pre-school programme."
• Lithgow, Daphne. 1983. Review of: Social and educational issues in bilingualism and biculturalism, Robert St. Clair and others, editors.
• Litteral, Robert L. 1975. "A proposal for the use of Pidgin in Papua New Guinea’s education system."
• Loving, Aretta, editor. 1975. Bilingual education: Past studies (articles reprinted from Read magazine).
• Loving, Richard and Bruce A. Hooley, editors. 1976. Student research papers in literacy and education.
• Malone, Dennis Lee. 1997. Namel manmeri: Language and culture maintenance and mother tongue education in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
• McCarthy, Joy. 1975. "Bilingual education."
• McCarthy, Joy. 1977. "Bilingual education for Papua New Guinea."
• McElhanon, Kenneth A. 1975. "The vernacular as an aid to education."
• Nagai, Yasuko. 2003. "Designing a vernacular English bridging programme in Papua New Guinea."
• Simpson, Steve. 1990. "Vernacular preschools: Why all the interest in them?."

Solomon Islands

• Lee, Ernest W. 1996. "Solomon Islands Pijin in education."