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Issues of Bilingual Education

he letter and the spirit of the law is not what it has become in practice. Some experts decided early on that children should be taught for a time in their native languages, so that they would continue to learn other subjects while learning English. It was expected that the transition would take a child three years (Porter, 1998, pp. 28-9).

Bilingual education is not a new phenomenon in the United States, but before 1968 the teaching of non-English languages and of some courses in non-English languages in schools had been a feature of local-school-district discretion. As Porter points out, a feature of the large scale that bilingual education assumed after 1968 was the fact that the original law marked the first time that the federal government articulated a national bilingual policy (by way of making funding available) for schools where educational policy had long been established and implemented at the local and/or state level. An unintended consequence of the 1968 Act, therefore, was that it placed bilingual education on the table of national educatio

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