bilingual programs
Two-tongue teaching systems
Bilingual programs are educational curricula that use two languages for instruction.
Some aim to transition students from their native language to English; others maintain both languages throughout schooling.
The district expanded its bilingual programs to serve Spanish-speaking families.
The term appears most often in discussions of immigrant education policy.
- immersionState of being submerged
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
- two-wayOperating in both directions
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
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- immigrant educationrefugee students, migrant children, immigrant families, ESL, educational access
- German Educationkindergarten, education ministry, comprehensive schools, education policy, technical universities
- private kindergartensMontessori schools, Waldorf schools, parochial schools
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- schoolsprimary school, school, college, academy, high school
- childcaredaycare, after-school programs, babysitter, nanny, babysitting