This state-of-the-art paper is centered on bilingual education teachers' linguistic qualifications with special reference to Spanish competencies needed to meet the needs of emergent bilingual education learners in the U.S. The paper spans over a forty-year period drawing on the experiences and related publications of the principal author…

The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of first-year teachers, recently graduated from an Alternative Route to Teaching (ART) program and hired to teach within Spanish-English Dual-language Immersion strands at local schools. To do so, recordings and observations of classroom practice, teacher interviews, and supplementary data…

United Arab Emirates nationals ('Emiratis') constitute less than 10% of the resident population of Dubai. Despite having access to free education in the public sector, where Arabic is the medium of instruction, more Emirati families in Dubai choose to enrol their children in private schools (specifically English-medium schools) than public ones,…

This book describes the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, which serves a community composed of families using German and English. It talks of the objectives and curriculum of the bilingual school, the manner of teacher selection and training, and the selection and preparation of materials. Included are appendixes which develop a typology of…

This study is addressed to the graduate level needs of prospective elementary school bilingual teachers who did not graduate from bilingual programs at the Bachelor's level, and to the development of a model for training those prospective teachers. An evaluation was performed to determine which curriculum areas of the New Mexico University…

This report reviews the Compton Bilingual Plan during its third year of operation at Thomas Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles. After a brief introduction giving background on the program, the second section describes in some detail major activity of 1971-72. This section includes a narrative report, a description of project…

The Northern Illinois University (NIU) bilingual/bicultural program is incorporated into an established elementary education program and provides teacher candidates with an integration of extensive practical field experiences and theoretical course work. NIU offers three program options. The Baccalaureate in elementary education with a…

This paper examines the problem of language development and language growth in the English-dominant Spanish-speaking student who intends to increase his total command of Spanish for the purpose of functioning in that language at a level equivalent to that of most educated Latin Americans. Observations are based on the experiences of…