Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education Links
- NCBE Home Page The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S.
- Center for Applied Linguistics An excellent resource for research into language acquisition, bilingualism, ESL, policy. Databases, articles & directories.
- The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies A report which discusses details of U.S. Department of Education studies about bilingual education.
- Navigating School: The Perspectives of Successful Mexican-Origin High School Students This thesis analyzes the educational careers of thirty-four Mexican-origin high school seniors. HTML and PDF formats.
- The Bilingualism Database Resources on all aspects of bilingualism: education, identity, assessment, special education, health, language acquisition, and more. From the University of Birmingham.
- SAT-9 Scores and Proposition 227 The effect of "English for the Children" legislation on the standardized test scores of limited English proficient students. Observations of Kenji Hakuta.
- CREDE Research on Bilingual Education UCSC Researchers find all students benefit from strong cognitive and academic instruction conducted in their first language
- SEDL - Language and Diversity Program The research activities of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. Program models for the education of immigrant children and second-language learners.
- Bilingualism, Languages & Education Network (BLEN) Educational forum helping teachers in primary and secondary schools.
- Educating Language-Minority Children Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, Editors. A review of the current knowledge about the education of limited-English proficient students.
- Moving in and Out of Bilingualism: Native Language Maintenance and Shift Recent research has emphasized the economic, social, and cognitive advantages available to bilinguals. Yet for many immigrant groups, bilingualism is a temporary phenomenon. According to survey data, Spanish seldom lasts beyond the second or third generation
- Stabilizing Indigenous Languages: Additional Papers Papers describing bilingual education efforts for speakers of indigenous languages.
- Educational Research- Bilingual Education A large collection of articles from the National Clearinghouse on Bilingual Education, with practical application for teachers and other personnel involved in educating linguistically and culturally diverse (LCD) students. It encompasses program evaluations, and language research relating to bilingual education.
- Cummins & Genzuk Report Analysis of final report longitudinal study of structured english immersion strategy, early exit and late-exit transitional bilingual education programs for language-minority children.
- Spanish for U.S. Hispanic Bilinguals in Higher Education. ERIC Digest, November, 1992. "Little attention has been given to developing and coordinating well designed and carefully articulated programs for Hispanic bilingual college students of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds"
- Theoretical Principles of Bilingual Education A slide show reviewing the research basis for bilingual education. Based on the work of Jim Cummins.
- Ñandutí: FAQs: Benefits of Starting Language Learning Early Ñandutí focuses on foreign language learning in Grades K-8. Designed for parents, teachers and administrators. Ñandutí suggests practical, easily-implementable materials, resources, and techniques.
- Why Bilingualism/Biculturalism is Appropriate in Deaf Education Deaf bilingualism refers to the experience of and belief in the ability of deaf and hearing people to recognize ASL and English as distinctive languages with their own linguistic attributes and respect them as such.
- ESL, Bilingualismo e Inteligencia,1997 Esta investigación tiene como objetivo presentar algunos de los factores que se consideran escenciales para la fundamentación de la teoria de la adquisición de un segundo idioma ASL.
- Readings in bilingual education A good collection of articles on bilingual education policy and practice, with titles like "Does Research Matter? An analysis of media opinion on bilingual education, 1984-1994," and "Tests, Achievement, and Bilingual Students."
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics ERIC/CLL provides a wide range of services and materials for language educators, most of them free of charge. These include digests and short bibliographies, a semiannual newsletter, and a question-answering service.
- Aging and Bilingualism An investigation that looks at the effects of natural aging on language processes in those individuals who are bilingual.
- Language Policy: Bilingualism and Intelligence Handouts for a Language Policy college course. Somewhat cryptic, but a good introduction or review.
- Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children Eight principles, drawn from theory and research on second language acquisition and culturally sensitive instruction, to guide educators working with linguistically diverse students.
- Language, literacy and communication Language, literacy and communication are intrinsic to human development and central to lifelong learning. The advancement of multi-lingualism affords learners the opportunity to develop and value their home languages, other languagesand a shared understanding of a common South African culture.
- American Shibboleth: Ebonics Background and analysis of the Ebonics controversy from a linguistic perspective.
- A Model for Language Teachers and Educators: An Interview with Dr. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng A motivating story for all second language teachers and educators to reflect upon as a model for knowing self and seeking self improvement.
- LSA Fields of Linguistics - Multilingualism An introductory article on the linguistic topic of multilingualism, by Guadalupe Valdés of Stanford University.
- Why Bilingual Education? By Stephen Krashen. This article explains the rationale underlying good bilingual education programs and summarizes research findings about their effectiveness.
- Jim Cummins Educator and teacher resources for second language and literacy development.
- Bilingual Education: Arguments For and (Bogus) Arguments Against By Stephen Krashen. May, 1999.
- Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children Outlines the research needs in the area of instruction of limited-English proficient students.
- Teaching Indigenous Languages An online text which examines the social and linguistic implications of teaching indigenous languages in public schools.
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