Adopting a Criticial Position Towards Bilinguilism

Objective

It will show the importance of Colombia's national bilingualism programmes, with the aim of highlighting their progress in terms of improvements in the teaching of one or more languages, within a multicultural and multi-ethnic country, with the strengthening and use of these spaces for their professional and educational growth. 

Differences between bilingual, bicultural and bilingual and bicultural 

Bilingualism: This term can be understood as a person's ability to understand two languages, only one of which is spoken and the other written, one being more widely used than the other, depending on the context and culture.

Examples

• Let's take the example of a child, from a very young age he is interested in learning English and his mother tongue is German, he starts taking classes in order to learn about grammar, structures, reading, listening to the language and as he becomes more proficient he starts to master all his skills.
• Let's also talk about the indigenous people, who speak their own mother tongue, but in order to be able to communicate with their environment and benefit from it, they decide to learn Spanish, so they look for social tools to learn how to use it in different aspects of life.

Bicultural: Biculturalism can be defined as the approach to cultures within education, in order to bring them closer to their customs, habits, among others. 

Examples

• An example of this term comes from Canada, as their mother tongue is English, but there are people with English-speaking roots from England and other French speakers from France.
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Bilingual and bicultural: Bilingualism refers to the teaching of languages and biculturalism refers to the culture of the languages being learned, both of which are part of a learning process that come together to complete and form beings with linguistic and cultural capacities in one or more languages.

Link of the video: https://youtu.be/H7OreuRFez8 

Conclusions

1. 
   In conclusion, I would like to stress that it is important to know about the terms bilingual and bicultural, because in this way we can get a little closer to the ways of learning a second language, acquiring solid knowledge that will allow us to move forward in the process.
2. On the other hand, I believe that a much more in-depth analysis can be made of the bilingualism programmes not only in our country but also in others, from which we can learn to apply in our own country and increase our capacities each time.
3. To conclude, the strengthening of knowledge and mastery of one or more languages is becoming more and more indispensable in order to succeed and grow professionally and in the workplace.