wo complete or incomplete monolinguals, but has a unique linguistic profile"(Baker 9). Based on these two views of Bilingual people, two views of Bilingual Education have emerged. There are people who say that we should not use Bilingual Education in our public schools, because that will keep these Bilingual students out of regular class for too long. It will not help these students improve their English. There are other people who say that we should use Bilingual Education in our public schools, because students need it.
According to Robert N St.Clair in Bilingual Review, May-Dec 1991 "The history of bilingualism in American did not begin in 1968à. obscures the diversity of cultures that have flourished in North American since the colonial periodà". (2) "[Crawford] notes that the resurgence of nativism in the late 19th century played a major role in the decline of bilingualism. à[In] the 1840s and 1850 ànew policy of language education made by immigrants which made for the few who benefited from their n
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