What is bilingual education? What is the purpose of bilingual education?

What will be an ideal response?


Bilingual education is using two languages as the medium of instruction. Bilingual education is designed to help students maintain their ethnic identity and become proficient in both English and the language of the home, to encourage assimilation into the mainstream culture, and to integrate the home language and culture with a new one.

Education

You might also like to view...

A pivot strategy is usually used by children during the early stages of speech to shift perspectives

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Education

In this model of team interaction members develop separate plans for intervention within their discipline

A. Interdependence B. Multidisciplinary C. Transdisciplinary D. Interdisciplinary

Education

After reading several books on healthy teeth and discussing the preschool class's personal stories of going to the dentist, the teacher realizes that some of her students have never been to the dentist or that some are nervous about the experience. To help her students have a better understanding of the dentist, the teacher could use technology to:

a. Take a virtual fieldtrip to a dentist office. b. Create a healthy food plan and chart how many times a day each student brushes his/her teeth. c. Watch a video clip of a dentist cleaning a child's teeth. d. All of the above

Education

One serious long-term effect of divorce is thought to be

a. ?too many role models for the children. b. ?too many siblings and step-siblings. c. ?the lack of or removal of models showing what the marriage role is like. d. ?too much time with either parent.

Education