Abstract

MADRID FERNANDEZ, Daniel  and  MADRID MANRIQUE, Marta. Effects of Monolingual and Bilingual Instruction on University Teaching: A Case Study. RMIE [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.67, pp.1255-1279. ISSN 1405-6666.

Although the implementation of bilingual plans of study in Latin American universities has progressively increased, research on their results is still very limited. This article attempts to activate this line of research with a case study of students' perceptions of their attainment of the professional skills listed on the syllabus of a first-level course, and of the academic achievement in two fourth-level courses. The participants were 265 university students, of whom 156 were enrolled in monolingual teaching programs, and 109 in bilingual teaching programs, in the same department. To discover their perceptions, we used a questionnaire, and to study the differences in achievement in the two courses, we compiled the students' final grades. The results show that the group with bilingual degrees was superior in several aspects to the group with monolingual degrees. The conclusion is that bilingual university teaching is beginning to show positive results.

Keywords : bilingual education; students; professional competencies; methods of learning; Spain.

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