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Rodriguez-Valls, Fernando – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
Thousands of students in California learn English as a second language in schools that utilize exclusively monolingual--English Only--literacy programs. With such programs students do not have the opportunity to use the knowledge of their first language in order to acquire and master their second language. The project of cooperative bi-literacy…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Spanish
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Hayes, Katherine; Rueda, Robert; Chilton, Susan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This article contains a description of the Dual Proficiency (DP) program in an urban elementary school located in the heart of a large south-western city, as well as the teachers who designed and now implement DP, and the immigrant community participating by choice in DP. We write from a context where, ironically, the number of English language…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Academic Discourse, Language Dominance, Second Language Learning