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Garcia, Sara Soledad – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
This is an analysis of California history of the shifting of language policies from Spanish to English, as an Official Language The focus is English as an imposed language that from the beginning of schooling policies stifle a process of language acquisition for the majority of Spanish speakers. In 1849 the California Constitution stipulated that…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Patterns, State History, State Policy
Adamson, H. Douglas – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, bilingual, and mainstream classes. Bilingual education…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Public Policy