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Peer reviewedAndersson, Theodore – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Revision of a paper presented at the Conference on Bilingual Education in Toronto, Canada, on March 13, 1971, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. (DS)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
Download full textBerney, Tomi D., Ed.; Eisenberg, Anne, Ed. – 1968
This bulletin summarizes the arguments for bilingual education in the United States. More than one language is needed as the medium of instruction where the child's mother tongue may not be English. Instruction in a weaker language not only retards reading, but arithmetic and other subjects are not as well learned if the child must cope with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Wilson, Jacques M.P. – The Florida FL Reporter, 1968
The author takes issue with an unnamed supervisory educator who opposes bilingual education. Wilson points out that to avoid wasting human resources it is essential that better education be provided for Mexican-Americans in order to cut down the repeating of grades and dropping out by students whose "home language" is not English.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Jacobson, Rodolfo – 1985
This report describes a demonstration project whose instructional design implemented sociolinguistic concepts in bilingual education and compared two approaches, the New Concurrent and the Language Separation approaches. The first section is a review of research studies concerning this instructional design. The second, third, and fourth sections…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
Shuy, Roger W. – 1976
The relationship between sociolinguistics and educational concerns is examined, the focus of the paper being to discover how current developments in sociolinguistics are contributing to the field of bilingual education. Following a brief discussion of related legislation, basic questions concerning bilingual program implementation are raised,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Travis, Michael – 1979
Early Russian religious and educational influences on the 20 various Alaskan Native languages are described, followed by those of American origin in schools and religious groups after the American purchase in 1867, all of which show the development of diglossia and language shifts. The present dual educational system, which includes state schools…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Politzer, Robert L. – 1978
During the past twenty years, the field of linguistics has changed in ways that are significant for the preparation of bilingual/cross-cultural teachers. Most linguists today would agree that variability in language and the relation of language to societal phenomena are now major concerns of linguistic inquiry and that interdisciplinary branches…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Applied Linguistics, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
