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Multilingüismo en las Américas: Convergencias y consecuencias | |||
| Session Code | O2 | Language | Spanish | ![]() |
| Plenary Speaker | Ofelia García | |||
| Institution of Speaker | Teachers College, Columbia University | |||
| Date and Time | Saturday, 3 April 2004 - 10.15 hs | |||
| Venue | UdeSA, Vito Dumas 284, Victoria, Buenos Aires | |||
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Biographical informationOfelia García has had a distinguished academic career committed to the practice of teaching and the education of teachers in urban communities, especially of bilingual teachers. Presently she is Professor of bilingual education at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies. She is also co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. Prior to joining Teachers College, she was Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University where with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, she founded the Center for Urban Educators in September 2000. García is co-editor of Spanish in Context and editor of Educators for Urban Minorities. From 1981 to 1997, she was professor of education at The City College of New York. Among her books are--The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City,co-edited with distinguished sociolinguist Joshua Fishman,(Mouton, 2nd edition 2001), Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education: Extending the Foundations (Multilingual Matters, 1995); English Across Cultures: Cultures Across English, A Reader in Cross-Cultural Communication (Mouton, 1989); U.S.Spanish: The Language of Latinos (Mouton, 1989). In addition, she has published more than 50 academic articles in the areas of bilingualism, sociology of language, U.S. Spanish, the education of language minorities and bilingual education. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo (1996) and a Spencer Fellow of the National Academy of Education (1985-88). She is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and is on the advisory board of Second Language Instruction/Acquisition Abstracts. AbstractLas Américas
del siglo XXI se caracterizan por su creciente multilingüismo y sobre
todo por el bilingüismo en español e inglés de los
hispanohablantes que vienen y van y que traen y llevan. Esta situación
sociolingüística de hoy nada tiene que ver con aquella América
del siglo XX en que como dijo Sarmiento: "En el norte se habla inglés,
en el sur se habla español."
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