Types of bilingual education Collin Baker

1. Chapter 10
Types of Bilingual Education

2. Bilingual Education refers to:
1. A classroom where formal instruction
fosters bilingualism
2. A classroom where bilingual students
are present, but bilingualism is not
promoted in curriculum
Introduction

3. Aims of BE
Maintenance BE
Static
Maintenance
Developmental
Maintenance/
Enrichment BE
Transitional BE

4. 1. To socialize people for full interaction in community
2. To unify multicultural society
3. To enable people to communicate with outside world
4. To provide language skills
5. To preserve ethnic and religious identity
6. To mediate different linguistics and political communities
7. To spread colonial existence
8. To strengthen privileged position in society
9. To give equal status in law
10. To deepen an understanding of language and culture
Variety aims of BE

5.  Aims : To helps illustrate the different
aims of BE in generalized.
 Not all real life examples will fit easily to the
classification
 10 Types of Bilingual Education are portrayed
in table.
A Typology of BE

6.  Analogy: Students are thrown to the deep pool and
are expected to learn to swim as quick as possible
without swimming lesson
 Students will sink, struggle, or swim
Mainstreaming/Submersion

7. •Only minority lg students, no
majority lg students
•1st Lg is not developed, but
replaced by 2nd Lg
•No native lg support
Structured
Immersion
• Alternative of ESL program
• Aims to develop lg skills
• Instruction will be
“sheltered”(simple syntax,
repetition, summaries,
speaking slowly and clearly,
frequently checking the
understanding
Sheltered
English

8.  1. No interaction to the native speakers
 Impossible to collaborate and have a critical
thinking
 Outcome can be frustration, non-
participation, even dropping out
Problem with Submersion

9.  Menken, New york(2009) Shows that English
language learners even after 7 years of
elementary education through the medium of
English have sufficient communication skills
but have limited academic literacy. Why?
 Because the basic aim of mainstreaming is
ASSIMILATION of minority speakers.
 School becomes a melting pot
One of real fact

10. •Labelled “Minority lg only”
• It occurs because programs attended by majority lg
speakers are denied to minority speakers
• Based on de facto(practice) or de jure(law)
•Aimed for apartheid, medium used is minority
language
•Assumption: Minority languages do not have
power to influence the society or to share the
communications
Segregationist Education

11. Aim: Assimilation, decreasing the
use of home lg to increase the
majority lg.
Students are taught in their home lg to
master the target lg.
Temporarily swim in one pool so
they capable to move to the
mainstream pool
Transitional Bilingual Education

12.  English speaking countries take their
education through their home country,
English (CORE PROGRAM or Drip-Feed)
 Survey by CAL(Centre of Applied Linguistics)
a. Elementary schools raised 6% for using
foreign Languages (Spanish and French)
b. 88% Elementary schools use Spanish as
FL
Mainstream Education
(With Foreign Lg Teaching)

13. • Aim: To detach itself to pursue independent existence
from majority Language
• Organized tor survival and self protection
•Eg. Isolationist religion schools
• (+) Highlights the ability of the minority Lg to stand
alone
• ( - ) Separatisms disconnect the children from wider
world.
Separatist Education

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