BILINGUALISM AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION

BILINGUALISM AND BILIGUAL EDUCATION

1.   The national bilingual program (NBP) has been implemented  by Ministry of education, and designed for implementing some strategies to improve the language competences of the students, the proficiency of the teacher.  The Colombia government developed this project for teachers. Since 1992 the British Council has worked on the use of English around the world, the globalization needs and  in agreement with the Common European Framework, in Colombia was developed the NBP, this is a project from National Ministry of Education, it was created in 2004 named Colombia Bilingue,  in which are stablished some polices aimed at spreading English as a foreing language, in order to get the achieve it's important that teachers, public and private schools, and each level inside de educational systme have to commit with the rasing of the English communicative competences. This programm pretend to aim getting better employment opportunities for the colombian proffessionals.

     

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     Technology is an essential tool in order to promote and improve the use of English and promoting the acces to the information. 

    We are future teachers, from now we have to guide our students towards the goal the MEN proposed, working on the development of the NBP, following the standards and propound strategies to improve the students' communicative competences.

      Nowadays to learn a second language it's so important because of the demands of the today's society, people are interested in learnt but there are some aspects that affect the acquisition of it because he learning conditions and academic requirement are insufficient.