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Essay on Mainstreaming LEP Students v Bilingual Education
The United States is one the world’s most ethnically diverse nations; the U.S. attracts immigrants from several countries. One of the most frequent asked questions are: how we accommodate immigrants and whether to try to fully blend them into the U.S. culture? There is a huge controversy over the Bilingual Education issue. After many years of bilingual education in the United States, one thing is certain that it doesn’t work and it’s failing America’s immigrants but many might disagree with this statement and may think that Bilingual Education is a successful program.
Two-way language development programs, also referred to as bilingual immersion, dual language, and mainstreaming education, are full-time programs that use two languages, one of which is English, for the purpose of instruction (Mora, 2000). Ideally, these programs are composed of elementary or secondary students, half of whom are native speakers of English, the other half of whom are native speakers of the other language of instruction. Subject matter is learned through the native language as well as through the second language, enabling students to become proficient in a second language, and to continue developing skills and proficiency in their native language...................
