Bilingual Education

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Pemise of bilingual education classes. Teaching children academic subjects in their native language. Support of traditional values of immigrant students' native culture. Easing the transition from one culture to another. Multicultural environment. Critics of bilingual education. Creation of a segragated classroom. Lack of opportunity to speak English. Lack of effectiveness.

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"Bilingual education programs are all programs set up to provide support to non-English-speaking children. In most public debates, the main focus is on bilingual education programs that are designed to teach immigrant children education academic subjects in their native languages. English is gradually introduced into the classroom. Basically, the underlying idea is to allow immigrant children to keep up with studies in other academic subjects while they work on their English skills. Furthermore, providing bilingual education programs is also a way for schools to show their support of traditional values of the immigrant students native culture. Therefore, in this motivating and protective environment, the advocates of bilingual education programs seek to maximize the chances of academic success for these immigrant children by easing the ..."

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