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(1977). A Textbook Selection Checklist for Bilingual Situations, Reading Improvement. Gives faculty members without formal training in reading a tool to assist in textbook selection at universities in bilingual settings. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Check Lists
(1978). Discours prononce au cours du diner offert a l'issue du premier congres de l'API (Address Given on the Occasion of the First Meeting of the API), Canadian Modern Language Review. The speech, half in French and half in English, is an endorsement of the association, an indication of political, social and educational reforms it might influence, a reminder that members of the association, Canadian Parents for French, were present and interested, and an appeal for good public relations. Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, French
(1977). Theory As Practice in Multicultural Education, Educational Horizons. Provides some suggestions for translating multicultural education theory into practice after discussing the need for implementing multicultural education and bilingual instruction for all United States citizens. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Practices
(1982). Audio-Visual Stories: Pre-Reading Activities for Bilingual Children, Reading Horizons. Discusses learning needs specific to bilingual students that may interfere with their understanding of what they read. Describes several instructional activities in which audiovisual stories are used as prereading exercises to increase student comprehension of English text. Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education
(1982). Coming to Grips with Cultural Diversity, Exceptional Education Quarterly. The article examines problems concerning special education and ethnic minority group children and reviews approaches to meeting the needs of these children. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
(1978). Le bilingualisme: Le facteur repetition (Bilingualism: The Repetition Factor), Canadian Modern Language Review. Recent research is reviewed demonstrating positive effects of bilingualism on cognitive development, some explanation of this research are given, and an interpretation is offered bearing on the variability of memory codes in bilinguals. Results of a study dealing with memory codes are presented and discussed. (Text is in French.) Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Language Instruction
(1978). Some Guidelines for the Assessment of Oral Language Proficiency and Dominance, TESOL Quarterly. Four dimensions of bilingual measurement are defined, and three major topics in the assessment of language proficiency and language dominance are discussed: selection of the language components to be assessed; appropriateness of certain elicitation tasks used; and general checkpoints that can be used to evaluate language proficiency dominance instruments. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Evaluation Methods
(1978). Language Policy and Deaf Ethnicity, Sign Language Studies. Deaf ethnicity, as the social phenomenon of deafness, is presented as the proper context in which to consider language learning, language teaching, and language planning in the education of the deaf. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Deafness
(1978). Cognitive and Socio-Cultural Consequences of Bilingualism, Canadian Modern Language Review. A review of the research indicating that bilingual children enjoy a definite advantage in the domain of cognitive flexibility. Further, there is no basis for the belief that becoming bilingual or bicultural necessarily means a loss of identity. Application of the studies to ethnolinguistic minority groups is discussed. Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
(1978). Language and Bicultural Education, Educational Research Quarterly. Bilingual and bicultural or multicultural educational programs involve economic and political issues that should be answered affirmatively and with respect for the informed decisions of the local community. Schools unfortunately may have more power to destroy than to enhance minority cultures. Descriptors: American Culture, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism
(1981). Language, Culture and Bilingual Schooling–Reflections after a Case Study of a School, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Discusses importance of looking into institutional practices within schools in bilingual research. Presents a case study and its community covering grouping arrangements for allocation of children of different scholastic achievement and language proficiency and the relationship of these groupings to curriculum and the school. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Students, Case Studies, Educational Environment
(1978). Learning Disabilities in Immersion, Canadian Modern Language Review. Two questions are addressed: (1) Should immersion programs be offered to all children, and (2) should the child who is experiencing difficulties in immersion be switched to the regular English program? It is felt that there is no definite answer to the first question at present and that the answer to the second is "yes." Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Immersion Programs
(1981). Language Experiences in Bilingualism, Childhood Education. Discusses the growing recognition of international and social priorities concerning bilingual competency, the relevance of these priorities for child development, and research findings comparing the verbal and nonverbal skills of monolingual and bilingual children. The implications of the research for preschool and elementary curricula in the United States are discussed. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Curriculum
(1980). Ethnocultural Dimensions in the Acquisition and Retention of Biliteracy, Journal of Basic Writing. Examines five biliterate (reading/writing mastery in two languages) educational settings for their functional approaches to language instruction and their different teaching methods. Notes the implications of such examinations and comparisons regarding regular English instruction and teaching English to speakers of other languages. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
(1978). Instructional Leadership for Bicultural Programs: Role Responsibilities and Relationships, Education and Urban Society. The roles of the school principal and the district program director in bicultural instructional programs are examined in this paper. The major responsibilities associated with both positions are defined. The role relationships between the two positions and between each position and the instructional staff are delineated. Descriptors: Administrator Role, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education