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Direct linkBaker, Colin; Wright, Wayne E. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
The sixth edition of this bestselling textbook has been substantially revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in the 21st century. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and societal levels. Updates to the new…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Textbooks, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedWright, Wayne E. – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
Cambodian Americans are a fairly recent language minority group in the United States; most families arrived in the United States as refugees during the 1980s. Over the past 30 years, there has been great concern in the community regarding the maintenance loss of their native Khmer language. This article provides an historical and contemporary…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Community Leaders, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
Wright, Wayne E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2004
This study focuses on an urban school district in Southern California with a large Cambodian-American student population. Ten Cambodian-American former students of the district were interviewed to examine the nature of their educational experience in terms of federal, state and district policies for language minority students. All entered school…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Language Skills, Urban Schools, Language Planning
Against the Undertow: Language-Minority Education Policy and Politics in the "Age of Accountability"
Wiley, Terrence G.; Wright, Wayne E. – Educational Policy, 2004
This article reviews historical and contemporary policies, ideologies, and educational prescriptions for language-minority students. It notes language and literacy policies historically have been used as instruments of social control and that racism and linguistic intolerance have often been closely linked with antecedents in the colonial and…
Descriptors: Ideology, Testing, Social Control, High Stakes Tests
Download full textWright, Wayne E. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This brief details the history of the federal government's stance with language minority students, and analyzes the implications of changes to its guiding principles made by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. With every federal re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act prior to 2001, the importance of bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Minority Groups
Wright, Wayne E. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This brief details the history of the federal government's stance with language minority students, and analyzes the implications of changes to its guiding principles made by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. With every federal re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act prior to 2001, the importance of bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Bilingual Education
