Abstract
Bilingual education is the use of the native tongue to instruct limited EngUshspeaking children.The authors read studies of bilingual education from the earliest period of this literature to the most recent.Of the 300 program evaluations read, only 72 (25%) were methodologically acceptable-that is, they had a treatment and control group and a statistical control for pre-treatment differences where groups were not randomly assigned.Virtually all of the studies in the United States were of elementary or junior high school students and Spanish speakers; The few studies conducted outside the United States were almost all in Canada.The research evidence indicates that, on standardized achievement tests, transitional bilingual education (TBE) is better than regular classroom instruction in only 22% of the methodologically acceptable studies when the outcome is reading, 7% of the studies when the outcome is language, and 9% of the studies when the outcome is math.TBE is never better than structured immersion, a special program for limited English proficient children where the children are in a self-contained classroom composed solely of English learners, but the instruction is in English at a pace they can understand.Thus, the research evidence does not support transitional bilingual education as a superior form of instruction for limited English proficient children.
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- Research in the Teaching of English
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- 1996-02-01
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- 10.58680/rte199615328
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