Teaching and The Challenges of Bilingual Teacher Training: A Look at The Process at the Stage of Generalization of National Languages

This exploratory study looked for reflection about the education and the training of bilingual teachers due the implementation and generalization of national languages in education sistem of Angola, mainily in, Lunda Norte province. Does the teacher bilingual training correspond to the process of generalization of the local languages in (primary) education sistem is the question that is raised. The study based on the Lei nº 17/16, Lei de Bases do Sistema de Educação e Ensino, that lead the monolingual teaching with help of local languages, as well as on the statistic data point out that the generalization fase did not bring meaningful inovations regarding to the bilingual teacher training if we face the multilinguistic contexto, sociocultural needs and classroom heterogeneous. Therefore, those teacher training to be a process that need to emprove either in efective generalization either in the consolidation of ucokwe language in the teaching process.

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].

This work did not receive any external funding.