This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Jay S. Blanchard, Joshua A. Fishman, Verity Saifullah Khan, C. M. B. Brann, Margery Thompson, Myriam Met, Marian S. Clayton, Joan T. Feeley, Nathan Glazer, and Karin Ryding Lentzner.
(1980). Ethnic Community Mother Tongue Schools in the U.S.A.: Dynamics and Distributions, International Migration Review. Research indicates that the number of ethnic community mother tongue schools may actually be increasing in the United States. These schools moderate and modulate ethnic uniqueness while channeling Americanness via the community's own institutions. Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Community Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
(1980). The Rebirth of Foreign Languages in the Elementary School, Educational Leadership. Foreign language study in elementary schools is making a comeback. Three models of innovative elementary language programs are presented. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
(1978). An Annotated List of Some Bibliographic Sources, International Review of Education. A selected international bibliography of bibliographies on bilingualism/biculturalism in education. Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
(1980). Cultural Awareness through Gaming, Social Education. Describes (with illustrations) board games based on a popular television show and adapted for bilingual classrooms in Texas. The games, adaptable for use in any classroom, are entitled "Mexican American History: Past and Present"; "Traveling to California–1848 Style"; and "Spanish-American History–1400s Style, or Who Is Columbus?" Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Games, Elementary Education
(1978). Meet Nina O'Keefe, Today's Education. A multilingual teacher discusses her approach to teaching non-English-speaking children. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups, Multilingualism
(1979). Bilingualism and Biculturalism for the Special Education Classroom, Teacher Education and Special Education. Three bilingual-bicultural competencies that can be easily mastered by monolingual English-speaking special educators are presented: ideological, sociological, and historical awareness; parental and community inclusion; and bilingual-bicultural curriculum for a special education classroom. Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Disabilities
(1980). How Schools Are Helping Kids Who Can't Speak English, American School Board Journal. Provides descriptions of five programs that illustrate how some school systems are managing to accommodate and teach non-English-speaking students. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Multicultural Education
(1979). A Workshop Tried and True: Language Experience for Bilinguals, Reading Teacher. A workshop for primary teachers demonstrated the effectiveness of the language experience approach with bilingual students. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
(1979). Foreign Language Teaching–Island or Continent?, System. Advocates the integration of foreign language instruction into the broader curriculum and education as a whole. Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Educational Theories, Interdisciplinary Approach
(1980). Computer-Assisted Instruction in Today's Reading Classrooms, Journal of Reading. Reviews the development of computer assisted reading programs and predicts that as costs decline and the quality of the educational program improves, more computers may be found in the classroom. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
(1981). Ethnicity and Education: Some Hard Questions, Phi Delta Kappan. The fear that the new responsiveness to ethnicity is undermining what has been, on the whole, a success will not go away. Whatever their backgrounds, when students leave the school they must function in an English-speaking environment. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity
(1980). The "Mother-Tongue" of Linguistic Minorities in Multicultural England, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Describes the newly emerging debate in England known as "bilingualism and mother-tongue teaching" by discussing: (1) the general scene, including historical background and educational and minority group attitudes; (2) the main component of the mother-tongue debate embodied in administrative questions; and (3) certain features of the wider context of ethnic relations as a whole. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Attitudes, Language Attitudes
(1980). Bilingualism and Biculturalism as Individual and as Societal Phenonomena, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. As diglossia is the societal counterpart of individual bilingualism, diethnia is the stable, societal counterpart to individual biculturalism. Diethnia requires societal compartmentalization as well as institutionally protected functional specificity. Maintenance of this division is difficult, given modern, interactive, mobile, and individualistic urban industrial conditions. Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Diglossia
(1979). All the Angles of Idiom Instruction, Reading Teacher. Presents practical strategies for helping bilingual students understand idioms and figurative expressions in their second language. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Idioms
(1979). Open to Suggestion: Community Language Learning for Bilingual Students, Journal of Reading. Describes the community language learning approach to second language teaching. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)