Bilingüismo

EMERGENCE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION

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Public bilingual education first appeared in the United States during the 1840s since many children living there spoke different languages, such as German, Dutch or Spanish, among others. However, after World War I several laws against bilingual education appeared and schools were only allowed to teach in English. In the 1960s, with the civil rights movement, there was an interest in bilingual education again, and finally, in 1974, the Supreme Court asked public schools to provide special programs for students who did not know or knew very little English.

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GOALS OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION

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Bilingual education programs, especially the dual language or two-way immersion program, were created to encourage students to learn the L2 (the language of the new country) in order to achieve academic and school success and to maintain and share their own culture, identity and native or heritage language with the rest of the students in the classroom. 

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SOURCE

Bilingual education. (2006). New World Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bilingual_education#United_States