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Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on the implementation of Bilingual Education, seeking to investigate whether this type of teaching has brought about any improvement and whether it solves the problems of school failure that have reached high levels in the early grades in the education system. The work was carried out based on sociolinguistic principles. To develop this research, we worked with Primary School students, belonging to a Primary School of the 1st Grade. For the accomplishment of this work, it was adopted an approach of comparative research of the annual results obtained by the students of Bilingual and Monolingual Primary Schools, of the Boa Esperança Primary School, in Gaza Province. The work consists of four chapters. The 1st one is related to the Research Methodology, where the procedures and methodologies developed during the research are indicated; the 2nd one is about Language, Education and Planning and in it the Linguistic Situation of Mozambique is presented, as well as some notions of Planning and Linguistic Policy and some types of Linguistic Policy and the Linguistic Policy of Mozambique; The 3rd section deals with the theoretical framework related to Bilingual Education in Mozambique, the Characteristics of an Effective Bilingual Programme and the Pedagogical Role of Languages in Bilingual Education. The 4th section focuses on the Reflection on a Case of Bilingual Education in Mozambique and presents the Characterisation of the Learners and the Analysis of the Educational Achievement of the Learners.(TRaduçao