bilingual education
Dual-language classroom instruction
Bilingual education is instruction delivered in two languages, typically a student's native language alongside the dominant language of the country.
Programs vary widely—some aim to transition students to the majority language as quickly as possible, while others maintain both languages throughout schooling: The district offers bilingual education for Spanish-speaking students.
The approach remains politically contentious, with debates over whether it helps or hinders immigrant children's academic success.
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- multilingualismMultiple language proficiency
- native speakersThose who grew up using a language
- native tongueLanguage acquired from infancy
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
English · curriculum · accent · vocabulary · classroom · mother-tongue · immigrant · heritage · literacy · pronunciation · diverse · cultural · Spanish · interpreter · immersion · school · submersion · program
- Asian educationConfucian academies, civil service exams, private academies, Peking University, examination halls
- multilingual communitiescode-switching, heritage speakers, ethnic enclaves, Chinatown, Koreatown
- Native educationtribal schools, tribal colleges, boarding schools, day schools, mission schools
- language rightsmother tongue, multilingualism, immersion programs, native dialects, Catalan
- K-12 Schoolselementary school, middle school, high school, student, classroom
- language learningvocabulary lists, lessons, acquisition, basic vocabulary, grammar books