This refers to any program that provides literacy and content instruction to all students through two languages and that promotes bilingualism and biliteracy
Dual Language Education
Sink or swim.
Submersion
Primarily focuses on teaching the English language over content.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
This program aims to transition ELLs to an English-medium classroom as quickly as possible.
Transitional Bilingual Education
Primary goal of this is to teach area specific content in a manner that makes it comprehensible to ELLs.
Sheltered instruction
Strategies for providing support for ELL's in their home languages.
Bilingual Strategies
Programs that aim to help develop both English and their home language so that they become both bilingual and biliterate.
Developmental Bilingual Education
The model identifies eight key components of effective sheltered instruction which include: preparation, building background, comprehensible input, strategies, etc.
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Perspective that views bilingualism as the norm and treats the languages of bilinguals as co-existing.
Heteroglossic Perspective
Specialized academic environment that serve newly arrived immigrant English Language Learners for a limited period of time.
Newcomer Program
Another term for "sheltered instruction" which is used in states like California and others.
Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
Education that uses practices of multilingual learners and teachers to it's advantage.
Translanguaging Pedagogy
Dual language is a type of this immersion program for BOTH English speakers and ELLs.
Two-Way Immersion
Perspective that views monolingualism as the norm and treats the languages of bilinguals as two separate distinct systems.
Monoglossic Perspective