Bilingual Education

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Bilingual Education

• EDUC-409
  Jose Llamas
• Group Project
  Patrice Harvey
• Nov. 18, 2004
  Evelyn Cruz
• Ben Archer
• Farrah Morales

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Introduction to Bilingual Education

• The Bilingual Education Act became Title VII of
  the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  Amendments in 1967. The Act passed and was signed
  by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 2,
  1968.
• Purpose
• To conserve the language resources
• To advance the learning of those children who
  were not native speakers.
• It sought to make learning the objective of the
  classroom, using other languages in addition to
  English to accomplish this goal.

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How do sounds acquired as child affect language
development?

• Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH)
• -Genie
• Babbling/Cooing
• -echoing, telegraphic speech, pivot grammars,
  etc.
• Interference of first language with second
  language
• -different sounds, environments, and cultures
• Personal Accents

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School Visited

• Esperanza Elementary
• K-5 LAUSD
• Public School
• Ms. Peraltas Kindergarten

• New City School
• K-6 LBUSD
• Charter School
• Ms. Brookes K-2nd Grade Pet Care Class

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Students at Esperanza Elementary by Ethnicity
1052 Students
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Students at New City School by Ethnicity
145 Students
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Maintenance Model

• Esperanza
• Native Language Maintenance Model
• Learn basics in native language for true
  understanding
• Native language not treated as second class
• Goal is for fluency in both languages

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Dual Immersion

• New City
• Dual Immersion Model
• 50/50
• Learn and understand both languages
• Both Languages incorporated in all classes

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How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?

• Parents Role in Bilingual Education
• Research shows that children do much better if
  they get support in their linguistic development
  at home.
• Parents in bilingual family need to be very
  active and spend a lot of time talking with their
  children.
• Need to have enough of both languages spoken to
  them.
• Create a rich language environment through play,
  books, videos, songs, etc.

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How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?

• Parents Role in Bilingual Education
• Researchers funded by NICHD found that
  supportive, warm, and engaged parent-child
  interactions are associated with the childs
  emerging competences in language learning.
• Contribute to young childs language learning
• Emotional Tone positive statements, comments,
  and praise
• Engagement
• Joint Attention amount of time a parent and
  child are mutually focused on a single subject or
  activity

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How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?

• Teachers Role in Bilingual Education
• Most schoolteachers are native speakers of the
  majority language and their skills in the
  minority language are unlikely to be perfect.
• Children should not have to sit through
  instruction which is patently unsuitable for
  them
• They have special needs if they are to reach
  their full potential in both languages

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How does their environment affect their ability
to learn their second language?

• Teachers Role in Bilingual Education
• A good teacher takes into consideration the
  different possible learning styles of pupils
• Factors include age, literacy need, and
  motivation must be determined
• Every learner should have benefit of equal
  educational opportunities
• Groups cannot be excluded
• Must consider Who is the learner we are
  considering? and/or What is the dominant language
  of the community?

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How does learning a second language affect a
childs self-esteem?

• Self esteem-The value each of us places on our
  own characteristics, abilities, and behaviors.
• The importance of the goal. (William James-1890)
• Collective self-esteem-Beliefs about the worth of
  the groups you belong to.
• Pride in family and community.
• Encourage ethnic pride.

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Spanglish???

• What is the purpose of bilingual education?
• The role of Educators
• The acceptance of peers in school
• Esperanza Elementary
• Parental contribution

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Programs

• Bilingual Buddies
• Parenting-self esteem

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References

• August, Diane Kenji Hakuta. Educating
  Language-Minority Children. Washington, DC, USA
  National Academies Press, 1998
• Brown, D. H. (2000). Principles of Language
  Learning and Teaching. (4th Edition) New York
  Addison Wesley, Longman
• Cunningham-Andersson, U. Andersson S. Growing
  up with two languages. New York, NY Routledge.
• Dodici, B., Draper, D., Peterson C. (2003.)
  Early parent-child interactions and early
  literacy development. Topics in Early Childhood
  Education.
• Finocchiaro, M. (1972). Teaching English to
  speakers of other language problems and
  priorities, The language education of minority
  children. (pp. 126-138). Rowley Newbury House
  Publishers, Inc. (Original work published 1971).
  

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References

• Fishman, Joshua A. Spanglih?! Bilingual Education
  in Princeton. (pp.3-5) United States, Website
  1976
• Richard-Amato, P. A. Snow, M.A. (1992). The
  Multicultural Classroom Reading for
  Content-Area teachers. White Plains, New York
  Longman.
• White, Maureen. Literacy in Two Languages Best
  of Both Worlds. 64th IFLA General Conference
  August 16 - August 21, 1998.
• Woolfolk, Anita E. (2003). 9th Edition.
  Educational Psychology. Massachusetts Allyn and
  Bacon.