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Elements Of A Successful Transitional Bilingual Program, Phillip J. Vasquez
Elements Of A Successful Transitional Bilingual Program, Phillip J. Vasquez
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The issues related to bilingualism, and more specifically, to bilingual education have become part of the national rhetoric in the news media recently. Of primary concern is the question of whether bilingual education helps or hinders second language acquisition. This project focuses on the issue of bilingual education as an additive in second language acquisition in order to identify the most effective components of the bilingual education programs. The results of this project are compiled into a teachers handbook for meeting the challenge of effectively teaching the language minority student.
Bilingual Language Arts Posters For The Classroom: A Reflection Of The Students' Culture And Needs, Mary Beth Doerr, Andrea Muñoz
Bilingual Language Arts Posters For The Classroom: A Reflection Of The Students' Culture And Needs, Mary Beth Doerr, Andrea Muñoz
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This project was designed to meet the needs of classrooms that are currently bilingual in some capacity and finding that current monolingual visual aids are not reaching all students. Bilingual visual aids in the form of posters will be created in order to meet those needs for the Spanish speaking population prevalent in the local schools. This paper describes the process of research and design for those visual aids.