Bilingual Education Research Paper

However, parents of non-English-speaking children are keenly aware of the realities of life as an immigrant in the United States. They understand that by not assimilating their children into American culture, at least from an educational stand point; can serve to hurt their children with respect to social and economic opportunities as they move into adulthood. There is one glaring impediment to realizing the aims of bilingual education: children who are placed into these programs are less likely to be transitioned from foreign language instruction to English language instruction. Children are being segregated into bilingual education curriculums indefinitely; which creates a disparity in terms of quality and access to education. This …show more content…
Bilingual education is an approach to teaching minority students that includes different program models that all have the same or similar goals. According to the California Department of Education, a bilingual education program is one that includes three characteristics; the continued development of the student’s primary language, acquisition of the second language (which for many language minority students is English) and instruction in the content areas utilizing both languages. These three characteristics
Giving all children the same foundation and start in education is extremely important in the United States and beyond. As a country we speak of leaving no child being left behind but we forget the children who struggle day to day with language barriers. Barriers that make “common” phrases and conversation different for them and that also cause them to struggle with test taking based on cultural norms and