Types of bilingual education

Education promotes two languages

Mantenance education

To promotes student's mother tongue and the learning of a secon language.

Submersion programs

The language minority student receives class in the dominant language alongside native speakers.

The teacher and students use the dominant language of the class.

Structured immersion programs

It has minority language students and no language majority students.

SIP conduct minority students in the majority language. L1 is not developed but replaced with L2.

ME: Foreign language teachers

The teaching of a new language is personalized. However, this approach does not promotes funtional bilinguism.

Teachers need to be bilingual.

Mainstream with pull of classes

Student takes extra classes to support the learning of L2.

It provides English language learning and the chance of building self esteem.

Monolingual education in L2 for minority students

Transitional education

To shift minority language student into the dominant language in L2

The objective is that student assimilates the L2. They can use their L1 in their learning process.

Segregationist bilingual education

Minority language speakers cannot access to bilingual education

Minority language is denied.

Separatist education

It promotes monolinguism and monoculturalism

It is organized by the language community in order to preserve it