Bilingual Education Strategies
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More immigrants have arrived in the United States during the 1990s than any other decade, increasing the number of public school students who need language instruction (McCabe, 2003, p. 1). For example, in the 2000/2001 school year, more than 4 million students û 10 percent of the total school population û had limited English proficiency (McCabe, 2003, p. 1). Transitional bilingual education was the preferred education strategy of the 1980s and 1990s. This strategy taught non-English speaking students in their native language while simultaneously adding English instruction (1998, p. 1). The theory was that the students would not fall behind in other subjects while they learned English. Then, eventually, as their English skills progressed, they would move toward education in all subjects in English (Rothstein, 1998, p. 1). Supporters argue that when non-native English speaking students first learn to read in their native language, they can transfer those learning skills to a second language, thereby developing stronger literacy skills in the long term (McCabe, 2003, p. 3). Proponents a
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