Talk:Intercultural bilingual education in Guatemala

The following are some bibliographic sources I will use for this article:

Academia De Lenguas Mayas De Guatemala. November 1, 2006. http://www.almg.org.gt/index.php/quienes-somos/historia.

Baker, Colin. Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism [electronic Resource]. 3rd ed. Clevedon [England]; Buffalo [N.Y.]: Multilingual Matters, 2001.

Crisóstomo, Luis Javier, and Proyecto de Educación Maya Bilingüe Intercultural (Guatemala). Técnicas Para El Desarrollo de Las Artes de La Lengua Materna Maya: Para La Escuela Primaria Bilingüe Intercultural. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala: Proyecto de Educación Maya Bilingüe Intercultural, 2001.

Escuela Y Proceso Cultural: Ensayos Sobre El Sistema de Educación Formal Dirigido a Los Mayas. 1. ed. México, D.F.: CIESAS, 2008.

French, Brigittine M. Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity : Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala. Tucson, AZ, USA: University of Arizona Press, 2010. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10491788.

Garzon, Susan, ed., The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Heckt, Meike, and Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala. Guatemala: Pluralidad, Educación Y Relaciones de Poder: Educación Intercultural En Una Sociedad Étnicamente Dividida. Ciudad de Guatemala: AVANCSO, 2004.

La Educación Indígena En América Latina: México, Guatemala, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia. Quito, Ecuador; Santiago, Chile: P. EBI (MEC-GTZ); UNESCO/OREALC, 1990.

Patrinos, Harry Anthony, and Eduardo Velez. “Costs and Benefits of Bilingual Education in Guatemala: A Partial Analysis.” International Journal of Educational Development 29, no. 6 (November 2009): 594–98. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.02.001.

Sam Colop, Luis Enrique. Hacia Una Propuesta de Ley de Educación Bilingüe. Guatemala: Universidad Rafael Landívar, 1983.

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Peer Review

Hey, I'm peer-reviewing this page. It's very well put-together. The only tiny thing I noticed is that you have the sentence "SENTENCE ABOUT MAYAN, XINCA, GARIFUNA LANGUAGES." I don't know if you accidentally left that in after adding the next sentence, or if you meant to add more. Sorry I can't be of more help, but like I said, it's really good already. ModestMoussorgsky (talk) 20:25, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

I am also peer reviewing this page. Here is the list of my suggestions: Capitalize Castilianization in national bilingual education project section. The second paragraph in public response has an error. “Concepts that doesn’t” should be “concepts that do not.” I did not see any other contractions in your article, but I thought I should note that you should not use them. In the third paragraph under public response, this sentence would be clearer if written the second way. • 'Critics of the education reforms have claimed that bilingual resources still either tacitly or overtly marginalize Mayan worldview and thus perpetuate European ethnocentrism.' • “Critics of the education reforms have claimed that bilingual resources still marginalize Mayan worldview, either tacitly or overtly, and thus perpetuate European ethnocentrism.” Some of your sentences may be too complicated for Wikipedia and make the article seem more like an essay. I would suggest trying to write shorter, simpler sentences to help with the issues addressed in the box at the top of your article. There are also several comma errors, especially when using a conjunction that does not connect two independent clauses. I did not check extensively for grammar errors, but I did find these three: • In Guatemala, Spanish and Mayan languages are not only tied to ethnic and cultural identity, but also rooted historically in the process of colonization and nation-building. • Education policy distinguishes between Mayan and Ladino education, but does not address education of the Xinca population (whose language is now extinct) or of the Garífuna (who speak Garífuna) • The demands of the Peace Accords maintain and institutionalize bilingual education, but diverge from early attempts at indigenous assimilation to dominant society through bilingual education by explicitly promoting Mayan language education. The other issue mentioned in the warning box is that your article is an orphan. I looked around and found the page “Bilingual Education.” I would suggest that you create a section heading labeled “Guatemala” and add a link to your article, similar to the style of Canada’s section, along with a short description of drawn from your article. The content of this article is really strong, but it needs some work to make it more Wikipedia friendly. Agardn9520 (talk) 01:49, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Some suggestions

Hi Tara,

This article is currently an orphan! Please refer to Wiki guidelines [how to link this page]

Banksel (talk) 23:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC)