What Is Bilingual Education?
Bilingual education has been practiced in many forms,
in many countries, for thousands of years. Defined broadly, it can mean any use
of two languages in school by teachers or students or both for a variety of
social and pedagogical purposes.
It refers to approaches in the classroom that
use the native languages of English language learners (ELLs) for instruction.
Goals include:(
• Teaching English,
• Fostering academic achievement,
• Acculturating immigrants to a new society,
• Preserving a minority group’s linguistic and
cultural heritage,
• Enabling English speakers to learn a second
language,
• Developing national language resources, or
• Any combination of the above.
Bilingualism education
The concept of Bilingualism education as applied to
individual children and to educational programs is dis- cussed, and the history
of research on bilingual children and bilingual education programs in the
United States is reviewed. Bilingualism has been defined predominantly in
linguistic dimensions despite the fact that bilingualism is correlated with a
number of nonlinguistic social parameters.
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