The human factor in primary bilingual programsthe management teams’ perspective

  1. Benjamín Romo Escudero 1
  2. Ramiro Durán Martínez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Revista:
Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

ISSN: 1697-7467

Ano de publicación: 2019

Número: 31

Páxinas: 131-145

Tipo: Artigo

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Resumo

In Spain, the interest in bilingual education has led to the implementation of bilingual programs in a large number of schools. Our study uses descriptive research to analyse the perceptions of school management teams regarding the impact of human resources on the design, implementation and supervision of bilingual programs in primary schools within the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. To this end, the answers provided by 70 participants to an ‘ad hoc’ questionnaire were subject to scrutiny. Besides the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample, four dimensions were thoroughly studied: organizational resources (including the design and supervision of the bilingual project as well as the degree of familiarity with and the acceptance of the project), human resources (that is, the number of specialist teachers, teachers with L2 accreditation, and language assistants available), teacher profiles (describing turnover rate, L2 level, and participation in CPD courses) and management teams profiles (providing information on training in bilingual education and on access to CPD courses and on resources for the evaluation of the program). The analysis of the research data is conclusive in identifying the training of management teams and the turnover rate of specialists as key to the success of school bilingual programs.

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