The Italian-Slovenian border represents a dynamic vantage point from which to observe how cultural and linguistic contact takes place and how minority groups have created educational strategies to preserve their cultural and linguistic diversity while striving for respectful coexistence with the dominant society. Slovene-medium schools have been…

Measures and compares the effectiveness of four programs in one school district: a maintenance bilingual program, a transitional bilingual program, a minimal bilingual program, and a nonbilingual program. (CM)

Discusses theories and practices that distinguish English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction from other instructional approaches for non-English speakers. Explores ways that ESL instruction might include academic subject areas other than English and address cultural as well as linguistic differences among students. Author/GC)

This paper explores tensions in translating multilingual language policy to classroom linguistic practice, and especially the paradoxical role of and demand for English as a tool of decolonization for multilingual populations seeking equitable access to a globalizing economy. We take an ecological and sociolinguistic approach, depicting tensions…

Address given at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), in Chicago, Illinois, November 26, 1971. (DS)

The Cincinnati Public Schools' German-English Bilingual Alternative School program is discussed. The program was established in 1974 for some 200 monolingual first and second graders, and expands vertically each year to the next grade level. Tests of reading and arithmetic skills show achievement equal to or greater than regular students. (CHK)

Discusses the sociolinguistics of literacy with reference to three examples: the history of Jewish education and attitudes toward literacy, the Rock Point Community School bilingual program, and the Pacific Northwest Indian Reading Program. (EKN)

Integrated schools that stress learning among students in two languages are called two-way schools. They provide a singularly rich educational environment and avoid the negative effects of educational segregation by tracking. A Chelsea, Massachusetts, bilingual elementary school focused on team building to use existing resources more effectively.…

To gather empirically based data to assist in the formulation of federal rules for the nation's bilingual education programs, the authors studied six school districts in the western United States. All the participating school districts had well-established bilingual programs. Data were collected through structured interviews with superintendents,…

Adapted from a commencement address given at the Middlebury College Summer Language Schools, Middlebury, Vermont, August 13, 1968.

Describes Project Orillas, a telecommunications network designed to improve the writing skills of bilingual and foreign language students studying English and Spanish in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States. The electronic bulletin board system used for communication is explained and guidelines for joining the network are included. (LRW)

Presents strategies used to initiate a bilingual program. (DW)

This presentation addresses the question of what language experiences are most appropriate for the academic instruction of children who do not speak English as a native language. The question is explored through a reanalysis of data gathered in a previous 6-year study that varied English and Tagalog instruction across grades one through six in 18…

Presents some reflections and perspectives on Lau vs. Nichols and on the bilingual educational issue from the standpoint of an Asian American, who, as a community worker and a teacher in the Chinese community, has seen countless examples of the need for better educational programs to serve our children. (Author/JM)