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SEeIng through a Bilingual Lens: Structural and Ideological Contexts of Structured English Immersion in Three Massachusetts Districts

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Gort, Mileidis; de Jong, Ester J.; Cobb, Casey D. – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2008

In 2002, Massachusetts voters passed Question 2, a law similar to its predecessors in California (Proposition 227) and Arizona (Proposition 203) to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion (SEI) programs. Using Ruiz's (1984) framework for language planning as an analytical lens, this study examined how three Massachusetts…

Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Bilingualism