Bilingual Education

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Bilingual Education

• Rebecca Mitchell
• Maria Rodriguez
• Adriane Goffena

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History of Bilingual Education

• Ohio became the first state to adopt a bilingual
  education law in 1839
• Xenophobia during World War I
• The Bilingual Education Act of 1968
• Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1974

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Bilingual Education Should Be Promoted in Schools

• Helps to Build Study Skills
• Promotes Diversity and encourages tolerance

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Building Study Skills

• Knowledge in a primary language can lead to
  better understanding of a secondary language.
• Students fluent in multiple languages often excel
  in school.
• Fluency in multiple languages facilitates the
  advancement of higher education.

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Promoting Diversity

• Allows students to become less ethnocentric in
  their views of other cultures
• Improves relationships between majority and
  minority groups

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Counter Argument

• Legal documents not understood
• Linguistic Separation
• Youre in America Speak English

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Rebuke

• The United States has no political parties
  organized along ethnic lines
• Immigrants reverted to English by the third
  generation.

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Bilingual Education Is Essential To

• maintaining and supporting cultural understanding
• promoting education on all levels

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References

• Chávez, Linda. 1995. One nation, one common
  language. Reader's Digest, August, 87-91. 
• Wikipedia. (2006). Bilingual Education. Retrieved
  October 20, 2006, from http//en.wikipedia.org/wik
  i/Bilingual_Education
• Dawson Salas, K. (2006, March). Rethinking
  Schools. Retrieved October 21, 2006, from
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• Unz, R.,Matta Tuchman,G. (1997) English Language
  Education for Children in Public Schools Section
  1, Article 1300(b).
• Genesee, F. (1987). Learning through two
  languages Studies of immersion and bilingual
  education. Cambridge, MA Newbury House.
• Hakuta, K. (1986). Mirror of language The debate
  on bilingualism. New York Basic Books.
• Arizona Association for Bilingual Education.
  Retrieved October 23, 2006, from
  http//azbilingualed.org/

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