Bilingual Education.

What Do We not know?

Table Of Contents
1. Title page
2. Table Of Contents
Definition
Difference in Education
Being Raised Bilingual.
The Effects With the Brain.
Type of Bilingual Educational Programs
Charts
Conclutions
Citations
1. What Does it
mean to be
bilingual.
Able to speak two languages with
the facility of a native speaker.
Spoken Written, or Containing
similar information in two different
languages
Of involving or using two languages.
These are the basic dictionary
definitions we can find anywhere, Now
we can derived from this the definition
of Bilingual education.
Teaching academic content int two or
more languages, which involve the
natice and secondary language with a
balanced amount of both.
How many languages do
you need to know to?
It is said that you don't need to know more than one language to be educated but in
the advanced societies that we see coming the the future is very lily that we will need
to start implementing bilingual education into our curriculums so we can stay ahead.
Its known that with bilingual studies that education rates in bilingual suburban areas
there education is much higher.

It was found that 65% of the students who were part of bilingual education programs
scored better than those students who were in the immersion program (Collier 41).
These research findings further confirm the close relationship between:
Well developed native-language skills,
Second-language acquisition, and
Academic achievement.
My Family Is Bilingual!
There are many misconceptions when it comes to growing up in a bilingual home, In the day and age we live
in we are found in a pool of multicultural mixed race couples, which in turn create this bilingual threshold
Here's a list of misconceptions and there researched answer
1. This is an old research theory that was
proven to be wrong. Research shows
1. Growing up with more than one language children can differentiate between languages
confuses children as young as 6 months of age.
2. Raising a child to be bilingual leads to 2. It takes just as much time as it would take for
speech impediments a monolingual household for the kid to
3. They will be mixed up with two languages develop the language.
4. It's too late to teach your children to be 3. This goes back to the first finding.
bilingual. 4. Yes it's more likely for a kind to pick up on a
language at a younger age children can
eventually get there. 4 % of Bilingual
Students become fluent in english after one
year, 21% after 2, 38% after 3 and 67% after
4 years (Ramirez 87)
Bilingual Effects on the
Brain.
Studies have shown that Teens That speak
more than one language have more
enhanced brain functions which lead to
better understanding
Dr. Nina Kraus and her colleagues at
Northwestern University performed
multiple studies on these teens using
sound to monitor their brain functions in
comparison to monolingual students.
Their findings proved just that.
In another experiment, the teens were
given a selective attention test in which
they were asked to click a mouse when a
1, but not a 2, was seen or heard. The
test involved 500 trials of 1or 2 seconds
each over a period of 20 minutes. The
bilingual teens outperformed the
monolingual teens on this test. (Harrison
Wein, Ph.D.)
Types of
Programs
Theres are a few programs available for
Students to have during their academic
journey.

Transitional Bilingual or Early-exit

bilingual Programs
Maintenance bilingual or late exit
programs
Two Way Bilingual programs
Some Quick Chart!

By: Viorica Marian, Ph.D., and Anthony Shook

Conclusion
After all the research that I have
come across it seems that there will
always be schools that are
monolingual because it benefits the
teaching curriculum but in the
upcoming years we will see a flux of
Bilingual schools happening. In the
state of Utah there is already a
small handful of them going up.
Once we get more school switching
over to teaching two languages we
will see a rise in professional jobs
around the world being filled up.
Citations
Baker, Colin. Foundations of bilingual: education and
bilingualism. Clevedon: Multilingual matters, 2001. Web
Kohlhepp, Brad H. Bilingual education vs English-only
Education. University Of Delaware, n.d Web
Ramirez, David. Longitudinal Study of Structured English
Immersion Strategy, Early- Exit and Late-Exit Transitional
Bilingual Education Programs for Language Minority
Children: Final Report, vols 1 (San Mateo, CA: Aguirre
International).
Collier, P. Virginia. "Age and Rate of Acquisition of Second
Language for Academic Purposes." TESOL Quarterly 21
(1987): 617-641.
Wein, Harrison, Ph.D. "Bilingual Effects in the Brain."
National Institutes of Health. U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, 29 Apr. 2016. Web. 29 Apr. 2017.