Bilingual Education

Essay # 57400

Education
Education > Multiculturalism

Bilingual Education

An overview of the different strategies for effective bilingual education.

1,535 words () | 7 sources | MLA | 2005 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how there are various accepted methodologies for classroom application of bilingual education, including immersion programs, two-way programs, and transitional programs. It reviews some of the literature concerning this issue, while paying close attention to the ultimate goal of classroom application in terms of the provision of effective bilingual education for minority students.

From the Paper:

"In terms of finding the best method to approach the provision of bilingual education to minority students, many scholars have reacted to the reports of Rossell and Baker, including Jay P. Greene, who sums up their report on bilingual education in his meta-analysis. Rossell and Baker were advocates of the type of educational environment that does not facilitate the use of a minority student's native language in the classroom as a way of facilitating learning and development, and their results suggested that teaching in other languages within an English-speaking system was counterproductive to cognitive growth and learning. Therefore, according to these authors, the very framework of the bilingual education program for minority students was called into question."