This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Nancy H. Hornberger, Christine Amato, Beverly B. McConnell, Jose A. Cardenas, Josue M. Gonzalez, Robert D. Milk, Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Carmel Sandoval, Susan Gann, and Laura Ferguson.
(1989). Bilingual Special Education: Training Issues, Exceptional Children. Increasingly, training programs for teachers of students with both limited English proficiency and disabilities have emphasized an interface between special education and bilingual education. A pilot staff development program of the California Special Education Project, which includes a combination training and implementation phase, exemplifies the improved training available. Descriptors: Bilingual Special Education, Disabilities, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
(1986). Desegregation and Bilingual Education: Legal and Pedagogical Imperatives, Interracial Books for Children Bulletin. Concurrent implementation of race desegregation and bilingual education can be at odds with one another, but ways to circumvent the contradiction are outlined. Desegregation processes can and must ensure that both the educational equity rights and educational needs of language minority children are considered. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
(1977). Bilingual Education Resource Guide. Reference and Resource Series. The successful implementation of bilingual/multicultural education programs depends, at least in part, on the availability of information on legislation, funding, teacher education, and program evaluation. This volume contains current descriptions and listings of resources essential to the functioning of any bilingual education program. Contents include a discussion of bilingual education in Public Law 93-380, a consideration of state bilingual education programs, an outline for a comprehensive education plan, background leading to Lau vs. Nichols, a directory and discussion of the activities of the CACTI (Cultural Awareness Center Trilingual Institute) Advisory/Evaluative Committee, a review of the Emergency School Aid Act funding of bilingual programming, a list of bilingual programs and grants in institutions of higher education and of civil rights activities general assistance centers, selective educational bibliographies of information and resources useful in Mexican American education and Native American education, and a guide to teacher education programs for bilingual-bicultural education in U.S. colleges and universities. [More] Descriptors: American Indians, Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
(1978). Bilingual Education in the United States: The First Decade, International Review of Education. The tendency for bilingual education to remain locally-oriented and to resist outside input may impede its success. Unless the efforts to better instructional programs, teacher training, materials development, and evaluation improve soon, no amount of political or legal support may be able to sustain the movement. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
(1982). Evaluating Bilingual Education Using a Time Series Design, New Directions for Program Evaluation. A six-year evaluation of the long-range benefits of bilingual education illustrates the utility of time series and between-group variance for programs involving linguistic and ethnic minority populations. Through the described Individualized Bilingual Instruction children were brought to a level of balanced bilingualism in approximately a three-year period of intervention. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Individualized Instruction
(1992). Enriching Our Views of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Educational Researcher. Introduces the articles in this issue of "Educational Researcher," and discusses their collective focus on the need to enrich the research perspective on bilingual education. Argues for the importance of basic research, case studies, and taking the reality of practice and ideology into account. Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Context
(1977). Meaningful Bilingual Bicultural Education: A Fairytale, NABE: The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education. If bilingual education is to achieve educational quality or linguistic and cultural maintenance concomitant and radical change in the allocation of language rights and other minority rights in this country, there must be a substantial amount of political and economic power by the groups concerned. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Court Litigation, Cross Cultural Training
(1985). The Changing Role of ESL in Bilingual Education, TESOL Quarterly. Reviews recent research in bilingual education and English as a second language (ESL) in an attempt to arrive at some generalization about what characterizes effective bilingual and ESL instruction. Challenges the conventional conceptualization of ESL as an isolated element within bilingual programs and offers suggestions for improving ESL teacher training. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
(1986). The Role of Native-Language Instruction in Bilingual Education, Phi Delta Kappan. The use of language is imperative to the intellectual development of children. Yet language minority children in all-English learning environments are forced to cope with shallow levels of learning while their future learning abilities are severely impaired. Bilingual education with native-language instruction is still the best option for children with limited English proficiency. Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
(1993). Ideological Shifts in Bilingual Education: Mexico and the United States, Comparative Education Review. Since the 1950s, arguments for bilingual education in the United States and Mexico have shifted from functionalist interest in modernization to critical demand for equity, then to interpretist recognition of multiple realities. Although minority groups are organizing to influence educational policy, entrenched dominant groups are unlikely to relinquish control. Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism
(1988). Language Planning Orientations and Bilingual Education in Peru, Language Problems and Language Planning. Considers the status and corpus planning aspects of three of Peru's Quechua policies in light of the language planning orientations of language-as-problem, language-as-right, and language-as-resource. Current Quechua/Spanish bilingual education recognizes the rights of Quechua speakers and the role of the language as a national resource. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
(1986). An "In-Class" Accent on Bilingual Education, Equity and Choice. Bilingual education and Mark's Meadow Laboratory School involves the use of adult tutors who work with non-English-speaking children within one of two international classrooms. The tutors serve not only as teachers but as psychological supports for children undergoing both linguistic and cultural adjustment. Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers, Elementary Education
(1982). The Illusion of Choice in Ethnic Bilingual Education, Integrated Education. Holds that, in Canada, educational achievement inequalities are erroneously attributed to language disadvantage rather that to the power implications imposed on languages by social-psychological relationships. Examines several countries' experiences with bilingual education, and stresses that children should master their native language before being taught in the majority language. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education
(1981). Special Report: Short Answers to Common Questions About Bilingual Education, AGENDA. Defines United States bilingual education, why it is needed along with bicultural education, its advantages, why the Supreme Court did not require it, why it does not hinder English proficiency, the distinction between language grouping and segregation, why the research is inconclusive, and why Quebec's problems will not be encountered here. [More] Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Access to Education, Bilingual Education, Children
(1994). Language Learning and Bilingual Education: Theoretical Considerations & Practical Experiences. This article presents theoretical considerations behind the Jyvaskyla teacher in-service development program in teaching content through a foreign language and surveys some international experiences of bilingual education. The term "bilingual program" refers to all variations of bilingual education and teaching of non-language subjects through the second/foreign language, from total immersion to short, content-based courses. The ultimate aim of second language learning is some level of bilingualism, a complex concept to define. Definitions of bilingualism use the criterion of competence level, age or origin, the learning process, the individual's identification with the two languages, or the functions that the two languages have in his environment. Finns regard the ability to speak the language articulately as the main indicator of language proficiency. Language learning presupposes cognitive processing of input and real-life testing of the hypotheses formed. Various factors are involved in communicative competence; in Finland, teaching non-language subjects through a foreign language is referred to as immersion, foreign language content instruction, content-based language instruction, extended language instruction or language-enhanced content instruction. European models of bilingual education and considerations on the development of bilingual education are discussed. (Contains 43 references.) [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Concept Formation