TY - CHAP
T1 - A Community Oriented Approach to Technical Training / Un Acercamiento Orientado Hacia la Comunidad para un Entreamiento Técnico
AU - Dayley, Jon P.
AU - Froman, Jo
N1 - The conference papers presented here are grouped under the six topics around which the conference was organized. The section on program goals and models for bilingual education contains papers by Joshua Fishman, Salomon Nahmad, John C. Molina, Alberto Escobar, G. Kent Gooderham, and Dillon Platero.
PY - 1975
Y1 - 1975
N2 - In Guatemala today, there are approximately 20 Mayan languages, many of which have a number of distinct dialects. Native speakers of Mayan languages account for more than half of Guatemala's population (most of these people are monolingual), while the rest speak Spanish as a second language with varying degrees of proficiency. Historically, education and development programs have been carried out almost exclusively in Spanish. There has never been a formal training program to provide Mayan speakers with the basic technical preparation they need to work competently, creatively, and independently in their own languages in education, development, and the production of written materials.
AB - In Guatemala today, there are approximately 20 Mayan languages, many of which have a number of distinct dialects. Native speakers of Mayan languages account for more than half of Guatemala's population (most of these people are monolingual), while the rest speak Spanish as a second language with varying degrees of proficiency. Historically, education and development programs have been carried out almost exclusively in Spanish. There has never been a formal training program to provide Mayan speakers with the basic technical preparation they need to work competently, creatively, and independently in their own languages in education, development, and the production of written materials.
UR - https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED121096
M3 - Chapter
BT - Proceedings of the First Inter-American Conference on Bilingual Education
ER -