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Malagon, Helen; McCold, Paul; Nelson, Joan Johnston – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2013
This report provides an update on the Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program (TBIP). In 2012-13, 104,025 English language learners (ELLs) received state services through the TBIP. This was an increase of just over 9% from the previous year. Most students live in urban areas along Interstate 5 corridor and in rural areas like the Yakima Valley.…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Patterson, William T. – Linguistics, 1973
Genealogical properties refer to those etymological properties which underlie such classifications as inherited, borrowed, on internally created words. (DD)
Descriptors: Etymology, Language Usage, Spanish, Statistical Data
Rosenblat, Angel – Yelmo, 1975
Reviews the spread of Spanish as a native, second or foreign language and shows that Latin America, rather than Spain, is now the center of gravity for that language. Gives a statistical distribution of the major languages throughout the world. The homogeneity of Spanish is mentioned. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)
Descriptors: Global Approach, Language Usage, Languages, Native Speakers
Waggoner, Dorothy – 1976
This report summarizes the language background information and certain demographic characteristics of language minorities in the United States. The data were derived from the Survey of Languages, a pilot study of the non-English-language background population aged four and older sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics as part of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Chinese, Demography, Educational Needs