"Ethnic Irrelevance" and the Immigrant: Finding a Place for Minority Languages.

Dicker, Susan J.

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Publication Date: 1993

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"Ethnic Irrelevance" and the Immigrant: Finding a Place for Minority Languages.

Dicker, Susan J.

Educational Forum, v57 n2 p120-33 Win 1993

Many approaches to instruction of language minority students have been tried: transitional bilingual education (BE), maintenance BE, foreign language education, immersion, and developmental-language BE. Research evidence of BE benefits has been ignored as a monolingual dominant class enforces assimilation. (SK)

Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Immersion Programs, Immigrants, Minority Groups, Second Language Instruction

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Language: English

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