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What is bilingualism? | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. November 1, 2010. There are several definitions of bilingualism. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages; the frequent use (as by a community) of two languages; the political or institutional recognition of two languages. To analyze and reflect about bilingualism we have to revise all this definitions and models as a started point. There are other concepts that have been used in the bilingual education literature, such as s...
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Korea | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. I participated in the 13th round of the APEC e-Learning Trainign Program with the economies of Chile, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Phillipines, Russia and Thailand. Narrowing the Digital Divide in the APEC Region. Firstly, the program is devoted to provide the customized e-Learnign training program based on the needs-analysis, reflecting current trends and recent technological developments in the e-Learnign field. Prior to staying in the APEC e-Learning ...
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What are we doing wrong? | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. What are we doing wrong? December 15, 2012. Some weeks ago I read the results of the new ranking done by EF International about the command of English in several countries. Last year Chile was in the 36. Place over 54 countries. This year in the same ranking we are in place 39. In Latin America we are in 6. Place below Argentina, Uruguay, Perú, Costa Rica and Mexico. Failure to take prompt and concrete measures within less than 10 years nearly every municipal school students...
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Are you surprised by English SIMCE results? | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. Are you surprised by English SIMCE results? March 29, 2011. I’m not. These results just showed our reality and if someone is surprised is because is completely out of business. Here you have some data of SIMCE 2010. The test was taken by 240.000 students. The score average was 99 out of 180. The minimum to get the certification is 134 (64 in Listening Comprehension and 70 in Reading Comprehension). In Japan students get an average of 119. Students that have more English hours.
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My interviews | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. Reporter and novelist, currently working for the National Geographic Traveller. In this interview we talked about Digital Storytelling. And its implementation in education. Susan Gass is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. At Michigan State University. We talked about bilingualism. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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What are we doing wrong? Part II | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. What are we doing wrong? July 15, 2013. Teaching English in Chile: Are we doing well? I haven’t written for a long time about ELT situation in Chile. But when I look at the current situation it hasn’t change that much. I d like to refer about last SIMCE results briefly since the test has changed and results are not a reference this time. Any analysis wouldn’t be realistic because the level of difficulty was lower than the previous test. Maybe if we involve the rest of the co...
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ALTE, ELT, TESOL, … What does it mean?!!!! | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. ALTE, ELT, TESOL, What does it mean? April 5, 2008. We are continuously listening to these acronyms, but what do they mean? Here you have the list of the most used acronyms in English Teaching. ALTE – Association of Language Testers in Europe. BEC – Business English Certificate (UCLES). CAE – Certificate in Advanced English(UCLES). CALL – Computer Assisted Language Learning. CPE – Certificate of Proficiency in English (UCLES). EFL – English as a Foreign Language. If you have...
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Lexical Approach according to Hugh Dellar… and me | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. Lexical Approach according to Hugh Dellar… and me. June 5, 2011. During his third visit at the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano Hugh Dellar discussed the Lexical Approach in a meeting with the students and teachers of the Instituto Profesional Chileno Norteamericano – IPCHN. In this opportunity Hugh talked about the Lexical approach and some of the basic principles of this methodological approach that are the most important according to him. Lexical is bigger than words: Und...
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IVLP | Jorivas's Weblog
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8230;from Chile to the world. My experience in the International Visitor Leadership Program. Over the years, hundreds of former participants under the International Visitor Leadership Program have risen to important positions in their countries. Among the alumni are over two hundred current and former Heads of Government or Chiefs of State. Some of them are:. Tony Blair, British Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. Hamid Karzai, President of Afganistan. Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile.
