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  1. Bilingual education for young children: review of the effects and

    Bilingual education for young children: review of the effects ...

  2. PDF Bilingual Education and America's Future: Evidence and Pathways

    The call for more expansive access to bilingual education is grounded in a comprehensive synthesis of evidence on the benefits of bilingual education, bilingualism, and biliteracy for students and the larger social fabric. Many studies find that access to bilingual education programs has a

  3. Bilingual Education: What the Research Tells Us

    The chapter also examines recent research around the notions of "dynamic. bilingualism "and " translanguaging, "along with their pedagogical implications. for existing bilingual programs ...

  4. Bilingual Education Is America's Future

    The report's authors contend that now is an opportune moment to expand bilingual education and establish bilingual and biliteracy education as the standard for instruction for all students, but especially for those who arrive at school with a language other than English. Patricia Gándara. "Careful and sophisticated studies produced over ...

  5. 6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education

    6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education. Part of our ongoing series exploring how the U.S. can educate the nearly 5 million students who are learning English. Brains, brains, brains. One ...

  6. Bilingualism as a Life Experience

    But the impact of language experience on brain activity has not been well understood. It turns out that there are many ways to be bilingual, according to HGSE Associate Professor Gigi Luk, who studies the lasting cognitive consequences of speaking multiple languages. "Bilingualism is a complex and multifaceted life experience," she says; it ...

  7. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

    This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also on how wider power relations affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom. García, Ofelia. 2009. Bilingual education in the 21st century: A global ...

  8. Education Sciences

    BFLA studies focus on children who acquire both languages from birth. Most such studies indicate that bilingual children's language acquisition proceeds like that of their monolingual peers in each of the two languages [6,7].For ESLA children, the age of exposure to L2 typically starts after moving to the L2 speaking country [8,9,10].Li Wei's (2011) [] and Hakuta's (1976) [] studies show ...

  9. Bilingual Research Journal

    The Bilingual Research Journal is the National Association for Bilingual Education's premier scholarly, peer-reviewed research publication.Bilingual Research Journal delivers in-depth coverage of education theory and practice, focusing on bilingual education, bilingualism, biliteracy, and language policies in education.. The journal has a strong interest in using different research methods ...

  10. Impact of bilingual education on student achievement

    Empirical evidence on the impacts of bilingual education . Studies can be cited to support either side of the debate on whether bilingual education programs work better than English-only programs; early meta-studies are , . Many of the studies fail to deal with the non-random selection of limited English proficient students into bilingual ...

  11. Multilingual education: A key to quality and inclusive learning

    Why multilingual education is key to intergenerational learning. In today's world, multilingual contexts are the norm rather than the exception. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Atlas of Languages reveals that there are around 7,000 spoken or signed languages in use around the world.

  12. Bilingual Education: What the Research Tells Us

    Abstract. This chapter explores key research findings about bilingual education and the related efficacy of various approaches to teaching bilingual students. Its principal focus is on the research to date on the most common forms of bilingual education. This research consistently supports the efficacy of bilingual education, particularly when ...

  13. PDF Bilingual education

    The call for more expansive access to bilingual education is grounded in a comprehensive synthesis of evidence on the benefits of bilingual education, bilingualism, and biliteracy for students and the larger social fabric. Many studies find that access to bilingual education programs has a

  14. PDF Current Research Findings on Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Education

    Studies of 50/50 programs indicate that students from different target language programs (e.g., Spanish, French, Mandarin) attain Intermediate levels of proficiency on ... International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15(2): 235-257. Collier, V.P., & Thomas, W.P. (2017). Validating the power of bilingual schooling: Thirty-two ...

  15. Bilingualism in the Early Years: What the Science Says

    We are researchers who study bilingual infants and children, and as such, we interact with bilingual families regularly. When we give community talks to preschools and nonprofit organizations about language development in early childhood, the question-and-answer period is invariably dominated by questions about early bilingualism ...

  16. Bilingual Education and America's Future: Evidence and Pathways

    This paper looks at the next 25 years of education and policy making regarding students classified as English learners (EL). Given the strong research evidence on the benefits of bilingual education and need to address barriers to opportunity experienced by English learners, this paper strengthens the case for federal, state and local education policy and action that looks toward the ...

  17. The Benefits of Bilingual Education

    Some of the benefits of bilingual education relate to intellect. For example, research has shown that students who can speak and write in multiple languages have cognitive advantages over their monolingual peers. Those who learn a second or third language from a young age are able to develop communication skills and a higher degree of literacy.

  18. Research Perspectives on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

    Bilingualism and bilingual education became a major focus of scientific research only in the last century, especially since the 1970s. Two disciplines that have influenced much of the research on bilingualism and bilingual education are linguistics and psychology. The research agenda of much of modern linguistics was defined by Chomsky ( 1986 ...

  19. Cultivating Bilingualism: The Benefits of Multilingual Classrooms

    Although dual language models are a wonderful way to cultivate bilingualism—along with biliteracy, biculturalism, and a whole new lens on the world—they are not always feasible. Many classrooms are multilingual, so teachers are seeking ways to foster first-, second-, and even third-language development (along with progress in all other ...

  20. Research Perspectives on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

    Abstract. This chapter outlines key research perspectives on bilingualism and bilingual education. Three broad perspectives are identified: linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic. The chapter focuses on theoretical questions and methodological approaches within each of the three broad perspectives and highlights the differences and ...

  21. Identity and two-way bilingual education: considering student

    In this special issue introduction, we use 'two-way bilingual education' to emphasize that this model serves both majority and minoritized language speakers ('two-way') and to (re)center the politicized roots of bilingual education through the deliberate inclusion of the 'b-word' (Crawford Citation 2004). We have given the special ...

  22. Bilingualism: A Cognitive and Neural View of Dual Language Experience

    The politics surrounding bilingual education have the consequence that few heritage speakers are schooled in the home language but instead switch to the community language as young children when they enter school. ... The studies on early bilingual exposure converge in demonstrating dramatic consequences for the tuning of the speech system in ...

  23. Bilingual Education

    Our degrees in Bilingual Education are designed to prepare prospective and practicing teachers, researchers, and future educational leaders with a firm foundation in language and literacy development and applied linguistics. Including a substantial field-based component, our programs are based on communicative methods of language development ...

  24. Bilingual Education: Building a Global Mindset in Students

    Bilingual education involves teaching in two languages: the student's native language and a second language. Unlike traditional schools where the second language is often taught as just a subject, bilingual schools integrate both languages when teaching all subjects. ... Studies have shown that bilingual students typically outperform their ...