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Peer reviewedHornberger, Nancy H.; Skilton-Sylvester, Ellen – Language and Education, 2000
The continua model of biliteracy offers a framework to situate research, teaching, and language planning in linguistically diverse settings. The continua model is revisited from the perspective of international cases of educational policy and practice in linguistically diverse settings, and from a critical perspective that seeks to make explicit…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHornberger, Nancy H. – Education and Urban Society, 1992
Presents a framework of biliteracy development focusing on the following three continua: (1) the macro-micro continuum of policy; (2) the monolingual-bilingual continuum; and (3) the oral-literate continuum. These are discussed in the contexts of Cambodian and Puerto Rican students in two public elementary schools in Philadelphia. (SLD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Cambodians, Curriculum Development
