Bilingual Education | English Immersion Has Not Been Proven to Raise Test Scores

Kenji Hakuta, a professor of education at Stanford University, is a scholar and educator at the forefront of bilingual education and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author of Mirror of Language: the Debate on Bilingualism, co-author (with Ellen Bialystok) of In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second- Language Acquisition, and editor (with Diane August) of The Debate on Bilingualism, Improving Schooling for Language Minority Children: A Research Agenda.

Summary: Pronouncements that English-only approaches work,...

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