2012•Unpublished venueRequires access
Bilingual Education
Wayne E. Wright
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on bilingual education programs for language minority students that deliberately provide language and content area instruction in both the native language and the dominant societal language. A basic premise of bilingual education is that students learn best in the language they understand the most. The chapter first presents a brief history of bilingual education, followed by an overview of bilingual education research, focusing mainly on research on the effectiveness of bilingual education for the language and academic development of minority children. It then discusses the methodological and theoretical issues, focusing primarily on various program models of bilingual education. The chapter concludes with brief comments on some challenges to providing bilingual programs.