COURSE SYLLABUS: TEACHING SPANISH IN BILINGUAL SCHOOLS

Location: Granada, Spain

Partner Institution: University of Granada

Course Title (English): Teaching Spanish in Bilingual Schools

Course Title (Spanish): La enseñanza del español en escuelas bilingües

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester

Instructional in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Pre-requisites: Advanced Spanish Level

Local Department: Hispanic Studies (CEH)

Course Code: CEH 375

Course Description

The main objective of this course is to familiarize the student with the basic issues related with bilingual education for which three main issues are addressed:

• What is bilingualism?
• Different models of bilingual education
• Bilingual Classroom Management in the Integrated Learning Model

Program Schedule

Basic concepts

• The bilingual individual. Cognitive features of bilingual processing
• Bilingualism from a socio-historical cultural approach

Bilingual models

• Background and development of bilingual models
• Political linguistics in Europe
• The bilingual school in the United States

Bilingual Classroom Management

• Integration between language and content
• Methodological principles
• Students, professors, families
• Design bilingual learning units
• Evaluation in the bilingual classroom

Course Evaluation

The final mark will be based on the following:

1. Mandatory attendance (according to the standard CLM)
2. Participation in the class and homework assignments (20%)
3. Mid-Term Exam (20%)
4. Oral presentation about a model of bilingual school/design bilingual learning unit (20%)
5. Final Exam (40%)

Bibliography (Text and Materials)

• García, O. 2009. Bilingual education in the 21st century: a global perspective (with contributions by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore) Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• García, O. & C. Baker. 2007. Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• Lemberger, N. 1997. Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives. L. Erlbaum Associates.
• Lorenzo, F., F. Trujillo & J.M. Vez. 2011. Educación Bilingüe. Integración de contenidos y segundas lenguas. Madrid: Editorial Síntesis.
• Ovando, C.J., M. C. Combs & V. P. Collier. 2005. Bilingual And Esl Classrooms: Teaching In Multicultural Contexts. McGraw-Hill College.

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