Language of instruction not most important for English-learners

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...

Language of instruction not most important for English-learners
May 10, 2010
By Beth Buckheit


A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Center for
Research and Reform in Education could change the way schools in the
United States teach nonnative speakers to read and speak in English.
The traditional argument surrounding the instruction of
English-language learners has been whether English immersion or
bilingual approaches work the best. But the Johns Hopkins study is
poised to make that debate irrelevant: After five years studying
Spanish-dominant children in six schools in California, Colorado, New
Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois and Texas, the researchers found that the
quality of instruction had a greater impact on how easily the children
learned English than did the language of instruction.



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