Bilingual Education History

Foreign language policy in the United States has long been a complicated process. This country was founded by immigrants from multiple languages ​​and welcomed many later immigrants who were accustomed to familiarity with foreign languages ​​even though there was some difference. Most immigrants learn English and despite their efforts to maintain their mother tongue, the second language "addiction and indifference" in American society gradually erodes many native languages It was. English is a common language of American schools, courts, governments and companies, but it is not an official language of our country.

My project is to learn about history, process, and bilingual education experts in bilingual education. Bilingual abilities are the ability to speak two languages ​​fluently. Bilingual learns bilingual and bilingual education and teaches all subjects of the school in two different languages. Owio first adopted bilingual education in 1839 due to an increase (reconsideration) of German-Americans. By the end of the nineteenth century, many states adopted bilingual education to meet the needs of industrialization for new immigrants. At the end of the First World War, many Americans changed their perception of bilingual education due to government's new Americanization policy, including fear of German-Americans and English only education. The bilingual education was reintroduced to the United States only after the age of the civil rights movement and the bilingual education law of 1968 was established. In California, bilingual education was not banned until 1967.

Since the country is trying to educate children other than English, bilingual education exists in various ways through American history. Recognizing the diversity of school languages, Congress passed the 1968 bilingual education law to provide a language course for non-English speaking students. With the recognition of diversity in the United States and the increasing population of immigrants, bilingual education is increasingly focused on maintaining cultural identity and educating students in their native language (Richman). The memoir of bilingual education for bilingual education of bilingual education of Richard Rodriguez "Aria: Memoirs of childhood of bilingual" pointed out that "child can not use family language at school", school education I have abused. The essence of intimate living "I think that students have the right to use their mother tongue as a school language.

Through that history, bilingual education has always attracted skeptics and critics. 10 The present era is no exception. In 1997, voters in Arizona, California, and Massachusetts strictly restricted the use of familial language in education and developed the toughest language policy in this country. Linguistic minority student