Guaraní Académico or Jopará? Educator Perspectives and Ideological Debate in Paraguayan Bilingual Education

Abstract

In Paraguay, a nation long known for its bilingualism in Spanish and Guaraní, the implementation of an educational policy for national bilingual education, now over a decade old, has enjoyed general support but stirred much debate.Chief among the questions has been how best to institutionalize a largely oral language that borrows heavily from Spanish for modern referents.This study investigates educators' perspectives on the question of whether a purified or colloquial variety of Guaraní should be used in schools, how these perspectives vary across relevant social groups, and how they involve ideologies of language that may mediate the potential for social change implicated in this ambitious program for national bilingualism and biliteracy.

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