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Language Teacher Education: The Challenge for the Twenty-First Century.
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Schick, Jo-Anne E.; Nelson, Paul B. – Clearing House, 2001
Offers an overview of current challenges of preparing foreign language teachers in United States schools. Discusses the growing demand for foreign language classes in elementary and middle schools; longer internships for preservice teachers; ongoing professional development; more bilingual and immersion programs; and the trend toward…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Immersion Programs
ESL Policy and Practice: A Linguistic Human Rights Perspective.
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Waters, Gisele A. – Clearing House, 2001
Finds that the reading performance of English-as-a-second-language students and English language learners immersed in regular education classes in a large urban school district was far below grade-level performance, across all categories of measurement; but that the performance of English language learners who had successfully exited from…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)