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Goals of Bilingual Programs
Mainstreaming/Submersion
Sheltered Instruction
The Case Studies Project
100
Overall goal of Transitional Bilingual Education
What is assimilation
100
Contains the idea of a language minority student thrown into the deep end and expected to learn to swim as quickly as possible without the help of floats or special swimming lessons
What is Submersion
100
A tool for observing and quantifying a teacher’s implementation of quality sheltered instruction that teaches content material to English Language Learners.
What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP),
100
A project designed “to bridge the gap between educational research and program practices.” The emphasis was on school improvement rather than on further effectiveness research.
What is the Case Studies in Bilingual Education
200
Aims to maintain language skills at the level of the child entering a school.
What is Static Maintenance
200
Programs contain only language minority children and no language majority children.
What is Structured Immersion
200
Adds cultural objectives to a well-defined and elaborate instructional approach
What is TWIOP (Two Way Immersion Observation Protocol)
200
A model that not only teaches LEP children to read in their mother tongue; it also seeks to cultivate a full range of linguistic skills in both languages.
What is Gradual Exit Model
300
Seeks to develop a student’s home language skills to full proficiency and full biliteracy (sometimes referred to as "Enrichment Bilingual Education)
What is Developmental Maintenance
300
Students are taught parts of the curriculum through English and not just English as a language.
What is Content Based ESL
300
Classrooms would be divided on the basis of English proficiency, an arrangement that necessitated a waiver of California law, which at the time required that English speakers comprise at least one-third of all bilingual classrooms.
What is Language Grouping
400
Aims to extend the individual and group use of minority languages, leading to cultural pluralism and linguistic diversity.
What is Enrichment bilingual education
400
US minority language students are taught the curriculum with a simplified vocabulary but also purpose-made materials and methods, through the medium of English
What is Sheltered English or Sheltered Content Instruction or SDAIE (specially designed academic instruction in English)
400
Curriculum that focuses not just on language but on all-round cognitive development as well.
What is Balanced Curriculum
500
May involve temporary segregation from first language English speakers
What is Sheltered Content Teaching
500
Notion that literacy skills are transferable from the native language to English
What is Interdependence Hypothesis