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[7] [8] Guatemala is one of a number of Latin American countries (including Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico) whose governments have implemented intercultural, bilingual education reform. In Guatemala, Spanish and the Mayan languages are tied to ethnic and cultural identity and rooted historically in colonization and nation-building ...
Colegio Interamericano is a private international pre-school, primary and secondary school located in Zone 16 of Guatemala City, Guatemala.Founded in 1976, the bilingual school serves approximately 1,300 students and is accredited with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and AdvancEd, Cognia; [1] and is a member of the Association of American Schools in Central America (AASCA).
[20] More specifically, GTZ helped in the development of these programs at the level of training for primary school teachers, which supported a bilingual project with Spanish and Quechua or Aymara. [ 21 ] [ 20 ] In Guatemala between 1995 and 2005, an indigenous teacher training program supported the national reform of pre-service and in-service ...
Guatemala’s Democratic Spring (1944-1954), was a period of social integration for Indigenous groups. In 1945 the democratic government of Guatemala established the Instituto Indigenista Nacional (IIN) allowing children in schools to learn to read in their native language first before learning Spanish. [30]
The American School of Guatemala is an independent, non profit, non-denominational, college preparatory institution offering an academic program modeled after the education practices and methodologies of the United States. It is founded on the principles of coeducational, bi-cultural (Guatemala-United States), and bilingual (Spanish-English ...
There are three Welsh–Spanish bilingual schools in Chubut Province serving the Patagonian-Welsh community. [74] [75] There are a small number of bilingual schools in other languages, including German, French, Italian or Hebrew. These schools are normally linked to the respective community. [citation needed]
School library. The Lycée français Jules Verne (Spanish: Colegio Julio Verne [1] is a French international school in Fraijanes, Guatemala. [2] It serves levels maternelle (preschool) to lycée (senior high school). [3]
As of 2011, there were 448 language immersion schools in the US, with the three main immersion languages of instruction being Spanish (45%), French (22%), and Mandarin (13%). [ 1 ] The first French-language immersion program in Canada, with the target language being taught as an instructional language, started in Quebec in 1965. [ 2 ]