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As part of its Raise the Bar: Create Pathways for Global Engagement, the Biden-Harris Administration today launched “Being Bilingual is a Superpower,” an initiative by the U.S. Department of Education (Department) to promote multilingual education and bolster high-quality language programs and a diverse multilingual educator workforce across the country.
Our Strategies. To be sure, the over 5.1 million English learners in our nation’s classrooms must be seen as assets—young people who come to school with wonderful languages and cultures to be shared and valued—and multilingualism should be viewed as the superpower that it truly is. The Department is committed to working with leaders at ...
Keywords: Bilingual Education, Biliteracy, Translanguaging, Teaching Strategies, School Community 1. Introduction The recent developments in the field of bilingual education can be utilized to create a scenario that is both inclusive and supportive of all students in a school community.
Using translanguaging to teach and learn in school mobilizes all of students’ linguistic skills.13 When used in school, translanguaging has four goals:14. Support students as Provide opportunities. Make space for. Support students’ social they engage with for students to develop. students’ bilingual or.
primary language that immigrant children bring to the classroom, and the potential of these children for becoming bilingual and bi-literate. The focus of the review is on research concentrated on school children who are developing literacy in two languages or have become literate in Spanish before starting school in an American classroom.
education, bilingualism, dual language learner policies Introduction The population of young children who speak a language other than English in the home and are acquiring English as a second or third language has increased dramatically across the United States in early care and education (ECE) settings as well as K-12 public schools. Many of these
society. Early childhood teachers can share the benefits of bilingualism with families and their communities, find ways to support children’s home languages, and encourage families to keep their language strong. Developing the child’s home language provides the foundation for reading and writing, preparing children to be biliterate. Researchers
The Bridge is the instructional moment when teachers purposefully bring the two languages together, strategically guiding bilingual learners to transfer the academic content they have learned in one language to the other, engage in contrastive analysis, develop academic English and Spanish across the content areas, read and write grade-level ...