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What is Bilingual Education

Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Language and Literacy Development
A form of education that has the goals of bilingualism, biliteracy, and academic achievement for students across both languages. Programmatic structures are such that both languages are taught, and academic subjects are taught in both or either language across the longevity of the program.
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Critical Bilingual Leadership for Emergent Bilingual Students
Joseph Wiemelt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA & Urbana School District 116, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8668-7.ch018
Abstract
The overarching goal of this chapter is to examine and understand the role that school leadership plays in fostering the educational space where language and literacy development are central to the vision of a school community for emergent bilingual students. With this in mind, traditional school leadership theory and practice are insufficient to truly foster the culturally and linguistically responsive schools that are needed for emergent bilingual students. Therefore, this chapter presents critical bilingual leadership theory as an innovative conceptual framework aimed at answering this challenge. Drawing from transformative leadership and Latin@ critical race theory, this framework situates the role of equity-oriented leadership in the context of fostering language and literacy development for emergent bilingual students.
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On Integrative Bilingual Teaching of a Foreign Language and Engineering at a Technical University
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Texting With Students: Facilitating Learning in Higher Education
The use of two languages used formally within an educational context.
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Learning in Two Languages: A Long-Term Study at Bavarian Bilingual Elementary Schools
Bilingual education involves two languages as a means of instruction for students, either embedded in individual subjects or the entire school curriculum. The respective subjects, however, are taught monolingually in one of these languages.
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Inclusive Education in Bilingual Early Childhood and Primary Centres
Bilingual education is a term that refers to the teaching of academic content in two languages, in a native and second language.
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Needs of the ‘Bilingual Schools' Program in Andalusia Regarding EFL Classrooms and Language Assistants
Instruction which makes use of two different language as educational tools (L1 and L2).
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COVID-19's Impact on the Design of Multiple/Single-Subject Bilingual Teaching Authorization in California
This is an educational model anchored in teaching and learning in two languages for students who belong to language minority groups in order to develop a high level of proficiency in English and varying levels of proficiency in native language.
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CLIL in Pre-Primary Education: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers' Views in a Spanish Context
An approach to education in which students are taught in two (or more) languages. It differentiates from learning a second/foreign or additional language as a subject because both languages are used for instruction in different subjects or content areas like Maths, Science, and History, to name just a few. The time spent in each language and curricula organization depends on the model itself and the specific context.
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Roadblocks to Bilingualism
The continued development of the student’s native language within school, while learning English. Bilingual education is most commonly transitional, meaning that it only uses the native language for a limited time with the goal of transferring to all-English instruction (usually three years). However, other forms such as longer termed maintenance programs do exist, as well as programs like dual language immersion.
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Teacher Education and Intercultural Awareness: Needs and Tools
An educational approach aiming at providing students with training in two languages.
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Content- and Language-Integrated Learning: A New Approach to Teaching Engineering
A way of teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.
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Literacy Development in L1 in Bilingual Education: Evidence From Research on CLIL in Primary School
A general term that refers to a wide variety of models of formal education in which the academic content is delivered in two languages: a native and a second language.
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Pedagogical Challenges in Cross-Cultural Chinese Language Teaching: Perceptions and Experiences of Chinese Immersion Teachers in the U.S.
It involves delivering content knowledge in two languages (L1 and L2) for the purpose of achieving bilingualism, bi-culture and bi-literacy.
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Creating Inclusive Learning Environments: Addressing Diversity in Bilingual and Plurilingual Programs
Instructional approach using two languages to facilitate learning and proficiency.
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Bilingual Education and Attention to Diversity: Key Issues in Primary Education Teacher Training in Spain
A teaching model in which two languages are used with the objective of improving students' communicative competence in their second language.
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Common Denominators to Learner-Centered Success: Undergraduate STEM, Graduate Teacher Education, and an Educational Technology Doctoral Program
A school program in which the languages of instruction are both the students' native language and the dominant language of the country or area. Example: in the United States, the use of Gujarati and English as languages of instruction to assist Gujarati students in mastering content in math, science, and social studies.
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Case Study: Attention to Diversity in a Spanish Classroom in England
Learning and using two languages in the classroom. Students are taught both their native language and a second language, helping them become fluent in both.
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The Adventure of Raising Kids in Spanish and English as Non-Native Anglophone Families in Spain: Parents' Perceptions Before and During the Process
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Indigenous Languages Learning Through Serious Games Based on Second Language Acquisition Theories
Teaching system through which the use of two languages is encouraged while the curriculum is covered.
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The Role of Language Ideologies in the Self-Efficacy of Pre-Service Bilingual Education Teachers
The learning environment where a person learns two languages at a time. Instruction (typically) takes place in English and the other language medium. There are different types of bilingual education, such as two-way immersion, one-way immersion, maintenance/heritage education, etc.
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Does Bilingualism Expand the Cognitive Experience of the Students?: A Case Study in Early Childhood Education
Educational system which enables students to become bilingual individuals by using an L2 as vehicular language during the teaching a learning process.
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Attention to Diversity in Bilingual Early Childhood Education
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Preserving the Mother Tongue of English Language Learners
The academic instruction of the core subject areas in more than one language.
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