California

California

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  PAULA GARRIDO GARCIA Bilingual Education Master´s Degree on Second Language Teaching and Learning
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  “If we spokea different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world” Ludwig Wittgenstein. (An Austrian-British philosopher)
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  o What arethe related ideas discussed in this section? Bilingualism Bilingual Education The Bilingual Child The USA California Structure of the paper
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  o What aboutthe bilingualism, the bilingual education and the bilingual child?  Bilingualism “A native control of two languages” (Bloomfield, 1933) “An open-ended term” (Baetens Beardsmore, 1982)  Bilingual Education The system to teach language students in public schools  The Bilingual Child Increase abilities and skills to control different grammatical systems without effort
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  o What aboutthe United States of America and California?  The USA A federal constitutional republic formed by 50 states  California A state situated in the West Coast of the USA
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  o What isthe structure of the paper? Context Linguistic Policy Bilingual Programmes Evaluation /Results Conclusions
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  o What isthe population in the United States of America and California?  The USA 316.128.839 inhabitants  California 38.333.521 inhabitants 50.2% females 49.8% males
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  o What arethe languages spoken in California? English Spanish Chinese Tagalog Vietnamese German Japanese Russian Indigenous languages
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  o These politiesare developments for English learner students.  Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act (1976) : ordered equal educational opportunities to all the non- English speaking students.  Bilingual Education Improvement and Reform Act (1980): bilingual instruction for every Limited English Proficient student in California.  Proposition 227 (1998): requires the English learning by Structured English Immersion programs.  The State Board of Education (2014): biliteracy programs that require an approach to language and literacy development.
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  o California isvery rich in cultural and linguistic diversity. o 1 out of 4 children is learning English there so you can see in this graphic the languages that they use to speak. 84.5 7.5 2.3 1.4 1.31 1 1 Spanish Other Vietnamese Filipino Cantonense Mandarin Arabic Hmong Resource: (The Education Trust-West, 2014)
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  o What arethe bilingual education models that are treated in this research paper? Transitional model Mainstream model Focus on their home language Focus on the secondl anguage
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  1 2 SanFernando Elementary School  22 miles northwest of Los Angeles  Goal: the students´achievement a grade level in the L2  Constant teacher training Joseph Gascon Elementary School  7 miles east of Los Angeles (Montebello)  Bilingual classes from kindergarden to the third grade 53 instructors: training in English/Spanish, on research and strategies
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  1 2 Aconstant progress in the learning of the second language. Obtain a title of their progress and for attainment of English proficiency.
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  1 2 3 4 Solid, and consistent instruction by the programmes. Due to linguistic and socioeconomic factors, students achieve a high potencial in the second language. Staff very involucrated in the students. Bilingual education important to increase cultural and linguistic knowledge.