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Title: Bilingual Education


1
Bilingual Education
  • EDUC-409
    Jose Llamas
  • Group Project
    Patrice Harvey
  • Nov. 18, 2004
    Evelyn Cruz
  • Ben Archer
  • Farrah Morales

2
Introduction to Bilingual Education
  • The Bilingual Education Act became Title VII of
    the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
    Amendments in 1967. The Act passed and was signed
    by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 2,
    1968.
  • Purpose
  • To conserve the language resources
  • To advance the learning of those children who
    were not native speakers.
  • It sought to make learning the objective of the
    classroom, using other languages in addition to
    English to accomplish this goal.

3
How do sounds acquired as child affect language
development?
  • Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH)
  • -Genie
  • Babbling/Cooing
  • -echoing, telegraphic speech, pivot grammars,
    etc.
  • Interference of first language with second
    language
  • -different sounds, environments, and cultures
  • Personal Accents

4
School Visited
  • Esperanza Elementary
  • K-5 LAUSD
  • Public School
  • Ms. Peraltas Kindergarten
  • New City School
  • K-6 LBUSD
  • Charter School
  • Ms. Brookes K-2nd Grade Pet Care Class

5
Students at Esperanza Elementary by Ethnicity
1052 Students
6
Students at New City School by Ethnicity
145 Students
7
Maintenance Model
  • Esperanza
  • Native Language Maintenance Model
  • Learn basics in native language for true
    understanding
  • Native language not treated as second class
  • Goal is for fluency in both languages

8
Dual Immersion
  • New City
  • Dual Immersion Model
  • 50/50
  • Learn and understand both languages
  • Both Languages incorporated in all classes

9
How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?
  • Parents Role in Bilingual Education
  • Research shows that children do much better if
    they get support in their linguistic development
    at home.
  • Parents in bilingual family need to be very
    active and spend a lot of time talking with their
    children.
  • Need to have enough of both languages spoken to
    them.
  • Create a rich language environment through play,
    books, videos, songs, etc.

10
How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?
  • Parents Role in Bilingual Education
  • Researchers funded by NICHD found that
    supportive, warm, and engaged parent-child
    interactions are associated with the childs
    emerging competences in language learning.
  • Contribute to young childs language learning
  • Emotional Tone positive statements, comments,
    and praise
  • Engagement
  • Joint Attention amount of time a parent and
    child are mutually focused on a single subject or
    activity

11
How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?
  • Teachers Role in Bilingual Education
  • Most schoolteachers are native speakers of the
    majority language and their skills in the
    minority language are unlikely to be perfect.
  • Children should not have to sit through
    instruction which is patently unsuitable for
    them
  • They have special needs if they are to reach
    their full potential in both languages

12
How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?
  • Teachers Role in Bilingual Education
  • A good teacher takes into consideration the
    different possible learning styles of pupils
  • Factors include age, literacy need, and
    motivation must be determined
  • Every learner should have benefit of equal
    educational opportunities
  • Groups cannot be excluded
  • Must consider Who is the learner we are
    considering? and/or What is the dominant language
    of the community?

13
How does learning a second language affect a
childs self-esteem?
  • Self esteem-The value each of us places on our
    own characteristics, abilities, and behaviors.
  • The importance of the goal. (William James-1890)
  • Collective self-esteem-Beliefs about the worth of
    the groups you belong to.
  • Pride in family and community.
  • Encourage ethnic pride.

14
Spanglish???
  • What is the purpose of bilingual education?
  • The role of Educators
  • The acceptance of peers in school
  • Esperanza Elementary
  • Parental contribution

15
Programs
  • Bilingual Buddies
  • Parenting-self esteem

16
References
  • August, Diane Kenji Hakuta. Educating
    Language-Minority Children. Washington, DC, USA
    National Academies Press, 1998
  • Brown, D. H. (2000). Principles of Language
    Learning and Teaching. (4th Edition) New York
    Addison Wesley, Longman
  • Cunningham-Andersson, U. Andersson S. Growing
    up with two languages. New York, NY Routledge.
  • Dodici, B., Draper, D., Peterson C. (2003.)
    Early parent-child interactions and early
    literacy development. Topics in Early Childhood
    Education.
  • Finocchiaro, M. (1972). Teaching English to
    speakers of other language problems and
    priorities, The language education of minority
    children. (pp. 126-138). Rowley Newbury House
    Publishers, Inc. (Original work published 1971).

17
References
  • Fishman, Joshua A. Spanglih?! Bilingual Education
    in Princeton. (pp.3-5) United States, Website
    1976
  • Richard-Amato, P. A. Snow, M.A. (1992). The
    Multicultural Classroom Reading for
    Content-Area teachers. White Plains, New York
    Longman.
  • White, Maureen. Literacy in Two Languages Best
    of Both Worlds. 64th IFLA General Conference
    August 16 - August 21, 1998.
  • Woolfolk, Anita E. (2003). 9th Edition.
    Educational Psychology. Massachusetts Allyn and
    Bacon.
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