Bilingual Education in Spain and some Latin American Countries

Bilingual education is understood as such an organization of the educational process when it becomes possible to use more than one language as the language of instruction. The second language, therefore, is not only an object of study, but also at the same time a means of communication, the language of instruction. It is known that bilingualism is "widespread" throughout the world much wider than monolingualism. Take the United States, for example. Most of the Hispanic population speaks both Spanish and English, or a variety such as Spanglish. Almost all speakers of other languages here also speak English: Germans, Chinese, Russians and representatives of other nations.

双语教育被视为一种对教育过程的组织形式，其中能够采用多种语言作为教学语言。因此，第二语言不仅成为研究对象，同时也成为沟通手段，即教学语言。众所周知，双语现象在全球范围内广泛存在，其普及程度远超单语现象。以美国为例，大多数西班牙裔人口既会说西班牙语又会说英语，或是一种类似西班牙语与英语混合的变体，即Spanglish。几乎所有的其他语言使用者也都通晓英语：德国人、中国人、俄罗斯人以及其他民族的代表。