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Guzmán, Norma A.; Fernandez, Mary Ruth – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2014
This study adds to the research on the problem of disproportionality of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students in special education (SE) in four districts and 13 elementary campuses in south Texas. Data was disaggregated and analyzed at the state, district and campus level when possible utilizing the composition index (Donovan &…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Disproportionate Representation, Elementary School Students, Special Education
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Lavoie, Constance – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
This article presents the language policy and sociolinguistic realities of Hmong people in Lao Cai province, Vietnam. Minority children, who have their own mother tongue, are educated in Vietnamese, a language that few understand. In response to this situation, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam in collaboration with UNICEF,…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Hmong People, Minority Group Children
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Lam, Agnes S. L. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2007
Language choice is often studied as choices made by the state at the level of national language planning or as individual choice of language or variety in language use. There has been little research to directly connect these two aspects of language choice. This paper attempts to incorporate the two aspects and other related phenomena in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Language Acquisition, Language Planning