Bringing Immersion Bilingual Education To Life
Critics of bilingual education have claimed that studies supporting bilingual education tend to have poor methodologies and that there’s little empirical support in favor of it. The controversy over bilingual education is often enmeshed in a larger political and cultural context. Opponents of bilingual education are sometimes accused of racism and xenophobia.
Studies confirmed that some bilingual applications have been allowing college students to remain in bilingual lessons longer than three years and were not educating them enough English to function in mainstream lecture rooms. In the early Eighties, the federal government quietly withdrew its help for native-language instruction programs.…