HISTORY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION And English Language Learners Strategies

The number of bilingual learners in the US Public Schools keeps on growing. This is due to different factors such as immigration, children growing up in a multi-language home or displaced families or children. The reasons might be different for each child, but the consequences are the same. A child will still learn to be bilingual and that bilingualism will either aid or hinder them. Bilingualism is perceived as an asset, not a liability. The government has put in place different policies to ensure that bilingual learners can achieve to the best of their ability and research has been done on how to support these bilingual learners in different environments.