TCH 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bilingual Education, Heritage Language
2 Jun 2020
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3 pillars of dual language education: committed, knowledgeable, and well-prepared teachers, culturally and linguistically responsive instruction, curriculum, and assessment, engaged and supportive families and community. Increase reading and math achievement of all students regardless of subgroup: substantially effective means of addressing north carolina"s large achievement gaps for limited proficiency. Academic l2 generally takes 5 to 7 years in comparison to conversational l1. Partial immersion- 50-50 models that use team-teaching, students alternate days between the english and lote teacher to receive content instruction in both languages: books, posters and other classroom print are equally represented in each language. Total immersion: almost always in elementary programs and includes 2 models 90-10, 80-20 where one language is taught more than the other never becomes the 50-50 model. Elementary: self-contained, 90-10, 80-20, or 50-50, time based, one or two teachers, grade-level teams, guidance from classroom teacher and parents, fewer students/teachers, smaller student/teacher ratio, assemblies and after school activities.
