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Min, Huang; Kangdi, Cheng – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Bilingual education policy in Singapore permits the students learn both English as working language and mother tongues, such as Chinese, as L2 anchoring to culture heritage. Starting from historical and sociolinguistic reasons, this paper is intended to provide a panoramic view of Chinese education in Singapore, clarify and compare Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Programs, Chinese
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Cashman, Holly R. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Despite its multilingual heritage, the USA has a history of linguistic intolerance. Arizona, in the country's desert Southwest, is decidedly anti-bilingual although it has significant non-English-speaking groups, especially Spanish-speaking Mexicans/Mexican-Americans and indigenous groups such as the Navajo, Hopi and Yaqui tribes, among many…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Research, Linguistics, Bilingual Education