Estudos Sobre Educação Bilíngüe e Escolarização em Contextos de Minorias Lingüisticas no Brasil
(Studies on bilingual education and schooling in Brazilian contexts of linguistic minorities)
Marilda C. CAVALCANTI (UNICAMP)
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
Print version ISSN 0102-4450
DELTA vol.15 special issue São Paulo 1999
doi: 10.1590/S0102-44501999000300015
ABSTRACT: This paper aims at presenting a state-of-the-art of a subarea in Applied Linguistics, i.e., bilingual education studies in Brazil or yet education in bilingual settings such as indigenous communities, immigrant, frontier and deaf communities. These settings usually have more than two languages in use as well as language varieties. The paper shows a sociolinguistic panorama of the country and of the studies about education in linguistic minority contexts and draws implications for teacher education and language diversity.
KEY WORDS: Linguistic Minorities; Multilingualism; Multiculturalism; Bilingual Educatiom; Bidialectal Settings.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Minorias Lingüísticas; Multilingüismo; Multiculturalismo; Educação Bilíngüe; Contextos Bidialetais.
