Conocerles para poder educarles: ¿es realmente diferente el alumnado bilingüe del no bilingüe en 1º de E.S.O.?

Abstract

This work is based on a premise: primary and secondary education has to adapt and fit to children and adolescent realities and contexts as best as possible. Thus, the more we know students, the better education we will be able to provide in both knowledge and values fields. In order to do this, two ESO first year groups (12–13 years old) from the same high school have been studied because of their unequal academic results. One of these groups is a Spanish-English bilingual one and this is, a priori, the one and only difference between both groups. This research aims to find out other differences between both groups. Tutorship activities have been carried out in both classes. These activities have been planned according to inter-culturality and social integration by using communication and information technologies. All results have been analyzed in order to relate them to possible differences in these students.