Bilingual Education, types of BE programs, benefits.

1. FARYAL SHUAIB
ROLL NO. 3
APPLIED LINGUISTICS’
PRESENTATION.

2. BILINGUAL EDUCATION

3. DEFINITION:
Bilingual Education involves teaching
academic content in two languages, in a
native and secondary language with varying
amounts of each language used in
accordance with the program model.

4. The other language is one which is essential
as a medium of schooling, or
intercommunication, hence vital for national
development, or for that reason, social and
economic necessity.

5. The program is meant to help the students
for three or four years until it is determined
that he/she can successfully handle
academic work entirely in English.
In short, BE is where some, most or all
curriculum content is learnt through more
than one language.

6. REASONS FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
● Acquiring language of wider or official
communication. In the twenty-first century,
proficiency in one language is not enough
for economic, social and educational
success. Global interdependence often
require the ability to function in more than
one language.

7. GOALS:
● The main purpose of the program is to
teach English as soon as possible and
integrate the children into the mainstream
of education.
● Maintain the native language and culture
while children learn English. Neither of
them should be the central theme w.r.t.
culture.

8. TYPES OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION
PROGRAMS

9. TRANSITIONAL BILINGUAL EDUCATION
Students usually receive some amount of
native language instruction so that they do
not fall behind in their literacy or content
learning as they are acquiring English. The
percent of time that they are taught content
in their native language changes so that by
the end of third grade, most of their content
instruction is in English.

10. IMMERSION:
In this program, all of the students’
instruction is in English. To help students
understand the instruction, the teacher
adapts her instruction by using ESL
techniques. Students are typically in this
program from 1-3 years. Once exited from
the program, students no longer receive any
second language services.

11. LATE EXIT BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
Also called maintenance, or developmental
bilingual education. In this program language
learners usually stay throughout elementary
school, or from grades K - 5 or 6. Similar to
transitional BE, students learn literacy and
content areas in their native language.
However, their transition to instruction in
English is more gradual than in transitional BE,
...

12. Continued:
… and they continue to receive instruction in
their native language throughout the
elementary school. e.g. beginning in fourth
grade, students usually receive 40% of their
instruction in native language and 60% in
English.

13. DUAL/TWO WAY IMMERSION:
In these programs, two types of students are
enrolled in same classroom or program: native
English- speaking students and English-language
learners.Instruction is presented in two
languages. The goal of the instruction is for
both groups of students to become fluently
bilingual. Typically, students in first grade
receive 80-90% of their instruction in native
language, ...

14. Continued:
… and 10-20% of their instruction in the other
language.

15. BENEFITS OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
● It preserves childrens’ sense of pride in the
language, allowing them to move freely in an
English-language dominant society while
retaining an important link to their cultural
and linguistic heritage.
● there are also economic advantages in
bilingual fluency and literacy, many jobs pay
higher salaries to their bilingual employees.

16. ● In an increasingly global society, the ability
to speak and write in several languages is
becoming necessary to effectively compete
in job market.

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