User:May erica/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Intercultural bilingual education.)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Bilingual education programs have been in great demand for the past decades. According to research, becoming bilingual and biliterate entitles a great deal of academic and social benefits for students and for the society they belong to. However, bilingual education has its own challenges as well. As a teacher of  ELL's I am interested in knowing about the structure of this model, the challenges but mostly how these kind of program benefits students and how to implement it. )

Evaluate the article
(The lead of this article includes a paragraph that explains the definition of Intercultural Bilingual Education, the impact it has had on culture and education and the target population it was designed for. However, the lead doesn’t provide a description/introduction of the article's major sections. Nonetheless, each section is divided by a subheading that makes it easy to read.  The article explains how some Latin American countries have adapted Intercultural Bilingual Education especially to preserve and promote indigenous languages. It also gives an historic summary on how some of these countries' governments and other institutions have passed laws and implemented programs to promote intercultural education. The content is relevant because it not only explains the outcomes of Intercultural Bilingual Education but at the same time, it gives the reader a brief description that allows a comparison of the types of bilingual educational programs that exist and their social and educational goals and linguistic goals. The authors aim to show facts about the intercultural bilingual education in South American countries and how submersion and transition models have affected the indigenous community's social and academic performance. The article describes  and mentions that the Intermodel’s  goal is to include  indigenous languages and culture into the classroom due to the fact that students who belonged to indigenous communities in Latin America were not succeeding academically or socially. The information is not presented in a way that the reader will take sides on a particular position after presented with the information.The article includes one image of a table which is large enough to read and understand. The table was probably made by the author of the article since it doesn’t have a caption describing where it was taken from. The article is organized into sections where the reader can know what’s coming next and refer back to the information if needed which makes the reading very easy to follow. No grammatical or spelling errors were found in the article. The information is backed up by reliable secondary sources such as online articles. However, the author of the article has two bibliographies and  30  references. The following external link is no longer available: Demanda y necesidad de Educación Bilingüe : lenguas indígenas y castellano en el sur andino peruano [Demand and Need for Bilingual Education: Indigenous Languages and Spanish in the Peruvian South Andes]. The fact that reference 30 is no longer available affects the credibility of Peruvian teachers criticizing the implementation of Intercultural Bilingual Education and seeing it as an obstacle for the independence of the indigenous communities. The article’s most recent references are from 2013, almost 11 years ago. More accurate information regarding the topic is available and should be included/updated in the article.The article was written/edited by the following student editors: Jialynnh Laura.o17, BrentTE, Felipesteaco, Christinesouth2017. This article is part of the following WikiProjects:Linguistics: Applied Linguistics C-class, Education: C-class and Latin America: C-class.The topic of this Wikipedia article appears in other trusted websites such as the University of North Florida, UNESCO Digital Library, Unesco and on the Northern Arizona University webpage. When clicking on Talk the reader will find discussion about biases, terms used in the article, the authors’ sources and translation of terms into English. One of the strengths of the article is that it presents a lot of verifiable sources and explains in detail the history of the implementation of the model in some countries. It could  be improved by explaining how the model works or it is carried out in schools. The article is well developed. It is easy to understand and it has reliable sources that can be verified  and are cited throughout the article. It has a neutral point of view with no bias when presenting the information. The article approaches the main aspects of the topic and the information is not constantly being changed by multiple editors. The authors could have included a detailed explanation of the structure of the Intercultural bilingual education model and more data and percentages of effectiveness of the program.)