bilingual education

[pradoe at georgetown.edu]

I have been reading about cognitive theories of bilingual representation
and processing like word association and concept mediation, and the idea
that beginning speakers of L2 rely on word association while as
proficiency increases, they rely more on semantic representations.  I am
interested in how this can apply to language teaching.
If anyone has any ideas, that would be great.
Thanks,
Beth Prado
Georgetown University