This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Keith Simkin, Ian Martin, Mario A. Nunez, James Cummins, Christina Bratt Paulston, Leanne Hinton, Barbara A. Sizemore, Sonia Lewin-Poole, F. Genesee, and Michael H. Kittredge.
(1978). Biculturalism: Some Reflections and Speculations, TESOL Quarterly. This paper explores the process and characteristics of becoming bicultural. The basic argument is that becoming bicultural is an eclectic process, which results in an idiosyncratic mixture of the two cultures with one basic "cultural competence," but with two sets of "socio-cultural performance." Descriptors: Acculturation, Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Biculturalism
(1979). The Four M Curriculum: A Way to Shape the Future, Journal of Negro Education. Discusses: (1) David Hawkins' theory that humans are equal, free, and rational; (2) the kinds of curricular, methodological, and administrative changes required by schools in order to bring about equality, freedom, and rationality; and (3) application of the findings to the Four M (multilingual, multicultural, multimodal, and multidimensional) Curriculum. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
(1978). PARC, Lau, Rodriguez, and Individualized Education, Cross Reference: A Journal of Public Policy and Multicultural Education. The values of individualized education have in recent years taken on new strength. The cases and the statutes which have contributed to that increasing strength suggest that it may be possible to realize these values within the public school system itself. [More] Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation
(1978). An Experiment in Trilingual Education: Report 4, Language Learning. Presents results of the fourth evaluation of trilingual school programs in French, Hebrew, and English being offered on an experimental basis in several elementary schools in Montreal. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English, French
(1978). Newcomer Education at San Francisco's Chinese Education Center, English Language Teaching Journal. The components of newcomer education are explored as they were developed at San Francisco's Chinese Education Center. [More] Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
(1978). Comparisons May Well Be Odious: A Case Study in a Bilinqual Teacher Education Programme, Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association. Describes an approach used to introduce the Australian education system to a group of bilingual trainee teachers. The aim, which was to develop in the students a sympathetic or at least tolerant perspective on aspects of Australian education which they found different or distasteful, was generally not achieved. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
(1978). Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers of English on Subtests of the Comprehensive English Language Test, T.E.S.L. Talk. The listening comprehension and structure subtests of the Comprehensive English Language Test (CELT) were administered to 211 secondary students from an urban center on Canada's west coast. The subtests appeared to be powerful enough to separate immigrant students of English (Second Language) from Canadian born bilinguals and monolinguals. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Immigrants
(1977). Hostos Community College: Vehicle for Social Change, Community and Junior College Journal. Describes the founding and development of Hostos Community College. Hostos serves a predominantly Puerto Rican student body and is the only postsecondary educational institution in the continental U.S. to offer a comprehensive bilingual program. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged
(1995). Current Issues Affecting Language Loss and Language Survival in California, Southwest Journal of Linguistics. California is extremely linguistically diverse, with one of the largest numbers of deeply endangered indigenous languages. None of its 50 living Indian languages are being learned at home by children, with few native speakers left. Outlines some language activism that native Californians are using to help develop new speakers and save their languages from extinction. Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Awareness
(1978). An Experiment in Trilingual Education: Report 3, Canadian Modern Language Review. A third report on the evaluation of a trilingual school program in French, Hebrew and English being offered in two schools in the Montreal area. The purpose of this evaluation was to continue to monitor the development of the pilot groups in the following areas: French, English, Hebrew and mathematics. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, English, French
(1994). Corima: A Bilingual Experiment in the Tarahumara Region in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. How Does It Measure against Transitional Bilingual Programs in the United States?. This report explores two bilingual educational approaches currently in use in Mexico and the United States. The study pursues a limited comparison between two modalities of bilingual instruction, as observed and reported in the consulted literature. The U.S. model featured is known as the two-way bilingual model, an additive approach to instruction. The Mexican Spanish/Tarahumara/Tepehuano bilingual educational model is discussed within the scope of this project. Both countries face the challenge in their educational systems of providing bilingual content area instruction to monolingual populations. Contains 38 references. [More] Descriptors: Area Studies, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries
(1978). The Cognitive Development of Children in Immersion Programs, Canadian Modern Language Review. A discussion of the effect of an immersion program on the majority language child. Research is reviewed on the "threshold hypothesis" and "the developmental interdependence hypothesis." Recent studies of the cognitive and academic effects of bilingualism are critically examined in the light of these hypotheses. A bibliography is attached. [More] Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
(1997). Questions in Lessons: Activity Settings in the Homes and School of Two Puerto Rican Kindergartners, Anthropology & Education Quarterly. This ethnographic study describes continuities and discontinuities between bilingual kindergarten and the homes of two Spanish-dominant Puerto Rican children. Findings highlight the complex web of continuities and discontinuities and the importance of the joint construction of a culture of teaching and learning by parents, teachers, and children. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Constructivism (Learning), Ethnography
(1978). "Shared Bilingualism–A Learning Experiment.", English Quarterly. Reports on the early progress of a teaching experiment at Glendon College, a bilingual undergraduate university college in Toronto, Canada, in which learners of both English and French as second languages learned each other's languages by meeting in mixed groups twice a week. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
(1978). So Who Wants Bilingual Teachers?, Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association. This paper presents some of the problems of placing bilingual teachers in Australian schools. There are few balanced bilinguals, teacher training institutions do not want to train bilingual teachers, and the Department of Education does not have a policy on bilingual teachers. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Language Instruction