Lang backgrounds of LEP students in 2000-2001

[Mitchell Roy]

The term "limited English proficient" refers not only to students whose
first language is other than English, but also to students whose first
language is English but is influenced by a parental or grandparental
American Indian or Alaska Native language.

Roy Mitchell
Sealaska Heritage Institute

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Subject: Re: Lang backgrounds of LEP students in 2000-2001


with skepticism?
Keith

On Sunday, February 29, 2004, at 05:52 PM, David Robertson wrote:

> http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/states/reports/seareports/0001/langsrank.pdf
>
> How are we to interpret this website's claim that 13 "Limited English 
> Proficiency" students, somewhere in the USA in 2000-2001, came from a 
> Chinook Jargon background?
>
> --Dave R.
>