This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Ezekiel A. Abe, Dennis Sayers, Andrew Gonzales, Kathryn H. Au, Zulmara Cline, Shareen Abramson, Sharon Lapkin, Winnifred M. Hall, Paul A. Garcia, and Kathryn J. Lindholm.
(1990). Literacy Development in a Multilingual Kindergarten Classroom, Childhood Education. Whole language activities promote the English literacy development of young children with limited English proficiency. Teaching strategies for promoting whole language development include (1) content-specific instruction; (2) scaffolding; (3) caretaker speech; (4) wait time; (5) peer interaction; and (6) cultural relating. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language), Kindergarten Children
(1990). Tomorrow's German Program Today: The Mount Washington Story, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Describes the Mount Washington German Magnet School in Kansas City, Missouri, a planned elementary (K-3) school that will provide students with the opportunity to participate in a German-English bilingual program. Parents choose either a total immersion or partial immersion program for students in this public, integrated school. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, German, Immersion Programs
(1994). A Study of Some of the Environmental Features Found to Be Conducive to the Bilingual Development of Pre-School Children in Singapore, Early Child Development and Care. Kindergarten and child care center supervisors in Singapore completed questionnaires about their programs and about the competency of children in their program who were bilingual in English and Mandarin. Parents completed a questionnaire about the home environment. Found that parents' provision of language enrichment materials for their children predicted the competency of bilingual children. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English, Foreign Countries
(1993). Building Capacity in the Education of Language Minority Students, Educational Forum. California's Bilingual Theoretical Framework, an attempt to establish "one best system" for educating language minority students, sets up self-fulfilling prophecies that hinder monolingual teachers' effectiveness. A chronic shortage of bilingual teachers and an influx of low-incidence language minorities create a need to move beyond the framework and empower teachers. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Faculty Development, Minority Groups
(1994). Multilingual Resources for Children, Language and Education. Responds to Grace Feuerverger's article on literacy intervention. The authors argue that uncritical use of multilingual resources is unlikely to result in significant improvement in students' literacy. They outline problems inherent in the use of multilingual materials and reasons for international cooperation in this area. (14 references) Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
(1991). Theoretical Assumptions and Empirical Evidence for Academic Achievement in Two Languages, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Studies second and third grade Spanish and English native speakers' proficiency in both languages and academic achievement, following exposure to extended-length bilingual/immersion program. Considers theoretical assumptions regarding language-thought relationship. Results link bilingualism and achievement. Identifies two language-proficiency types. Indicates content transfers across languages. Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education
(1991). Heritage Language Children in an English-French Bilingual Program, Canadian Modern Language Review. Reports on two studies of minority language children enrolled in a Toronto, Canada, bilingual (English-French) program. The study indicated that focus on the maintenance and development of students' heritage language with specific reference to literacy learning enhanced the learning of French, a third language for the minority language students. (14 references) Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English, Foreign Countries, French
(1990). Teaching Their Own: Minority Challenges to Mainstream Institutions, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Hmong refugees in Milwaukee created a literacy program tailored to their cultural learning needs within a vocational-technical institution. Primary ingredients include instructors from the same cultural background, connections between learning and day-to-day survival, attention to significant social needs of students, and strategies consistent with the cultural assumptions of the community. Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Community Control
(1993). An Overview of Language and Development, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. The components of language rights for social development are enumerated and discussed, listed under such rubrics as national language development, languages of instruction, access to a Language of Wider Communication, bilingual schooling, and the cultivation of the national languages. Examples from various countries are cited. (Contains 26 references.) Descriptors: Access to Information, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Language Planning
(1991). Teaching Reading in the Nigerian Primary School, Reading Horizons. Discusses the different approaches to teaching reading to young Nigerian children. Points out the merits and demerits of the approaches. Alerts readers to the urgent need to open up studies on what is the best approach to teach reading to Nigerian children. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
(1995). Multicultural Perspectives on Literacy Research, Journal of Reading Behavior. Describes the broad territory covered by researchers whose work reflects various multicultural perspectives on literacy. Discusses four areas of literacy research that reflect these perspectives: critical analyses, cultural difference analyses, bilingual analyses, and literary analyses. Also discusses the foremost proponents of each perspective. Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
(1993). Review of "Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only," by James Crawford, Bilingual Research Journal. Reviews a book that documents the rise of the English-only movement in the 1980s and examines historical and sociocultural factors shaping the movement, potential effects of an official language on constitutional rights of language minorities, anti-immigrant sentiments and America's obstinate monolingualism, and the ongoing battle for equal rights and equal education by Mexican Americans in the Southwest. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Civil Rights, Democratic Values
(1991). Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Students from the Same Culture: A Portrait of an Emerging Relationship Mediated by Technology, Canadian Modern Language Review. Discusses the use of the "portraiture" methodology to study a joint curriculum project between a U.S. and a Puerto Rican bilingual (Spanish-English) elementary school, which focuses on the use of De Orilla a Orilla, an international computer networking project, to arrange collaborative teaching, communicate by electronic mail and teleconferences, and produce a joint bilingual newsletter. (22 references) Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Elementary Education
(1995). Jamaican Deaf Children Interacting with Written Language: Support for Bilingual Instruction?, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education. Multilevel analyses compared performances of 12 deaf Jamaican adolescents (ages 15 and 16) and 12 hearing adolescents (ages 13 and 14) on writing, reading, and (for deaf subjects) sign language tasks. The deaf adolescents' ability to express complex ideas in sign language supported the need for use of a bilingual approach to the teaching of written language to deaf students. Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Expressive Language
(1994). English as a Foreign Language in a Bilingual Approach in Britain: Toward the Development of a Curriculum for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Deaf Children, ACEHI Journal/Revue ACEDA. This article focuses on the complex dynamics and the practical demands of teaching English to deaf children for whom British Sign Language (BSL) is a preferred/dominant language. A model focusing on the relationship between English and BSL is presented, and implications for curriculum and teaching methods are drawn. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education