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Running head: SUMMARY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION

Summary of bilingual education

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SUMMARY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION

Summary of bilingual education

Relationships between majority and minoritized language groups in bilingual education

policy and program planning

As noted in the class readings by Ofelia Garcia in the book entitled Bilingual Education in the

Century: A Global Perspective, bilingualism has been defined as the usage of more than one

language, either by a group or individual speaker. Ofelia Garcia is indifferent to many authors,

whereby he argues that bilingual education is distinct from the traditional language programs,

which teach a foreign or second language. For the most part, traditional secondor language

(foreign) programs teach it as a subject, whereas education programs linked to bilingual use the

lingual as a medium of instruction. This insinuates teaching the content using an additional

language instead of using children's home language.

Worthnoting, from the class readings, I noted the relationship existing between the minoritized

and majority language groups in the policies and programs plans for bilingual education. In line

with Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson (1994), there are two broad categories of Linguistic

Human Rights. One of these rights is the individual rights whereby everyone should identify

with their mother tongue, and others shall respect it. This includes this individual's right to

learning and using their home language, inclusive of education, and learning one official lingua

in a country of residence. The second one is the community right, whereby there is the right of

the minority group existing. This includes the right to establish and maintain schools and other

institutions of learning without controlling the curricula. In the language group policies and

program plans, as noted by Skutnabb-Kangas (2000), the proposition of LHRs is inclusive of the

below-mentioned:

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1 Running head: SUMMARY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION Summary of bilingual education Name of the student: Professor: Class: Date: 2 SUMMARY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION Summary of bilingual education Relationships between majority and minoritized language groups in bilingual education policy and program planning As noted in the class readings by Ofelia Garcia in the book entitled Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective, bilingualism has been defined as the usage of more than one language, either by a group or individual speaker. Ofelia Garcia is indifferent to many authors, whereby he argues that bilingual education is distinct from the traditional language programs, which teach a foreign or second language. For the most part, traditional secondor language (foreign) programs teach it as a subject, whereas education programs linked to bilingual use the lingual as a medium of instruction. This insinuates teaching the content using an additional language instead of using children's home language. Worthnoting, from the class readings, I noted the relationship existing between the minoritized and majority language groups in the policies and programs plans for bilingual education. In line with Skutnabb-Kangas and Phillipson (1994), there are two broad categories of Linguistic Human Rights. One of these rights is the individual rights whereby everyone should identify with their mother tongue, and others shall respect it. This includes this individual's right to learnin ...
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