This book presents an integrated vision of bilingual education in six South American nations: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. It includes work carried out in minority as well as majority language contexts, referring to developments in the fields of indigenous, Deaf, and international bilingual and multilingual provision.

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.