Bilingual Education in South America

Anne-Marie de Mejía works in the Centre for Research and Development in Education at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She has a Ph. D in Linguistics in the area of Bilingual Education. Her research interests include bilingual classroom interaction, process of teacher empowerment and bilingual teacher development.

Anne-Marie de Mejía has worked for many years in the Linguistics Department of the School of Language Sciences at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, where she has been Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Language and Coordinator of the Bilingualism Research Group. Her research interests include bilingual classroom interaction, the construction of bilingual curricula and processes of empowerment, and bilingual teacher development.