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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED176304 AUTHOR: Gebhard, Ann O.
TITLE: The Impact of Bilingual/Bicultural Education on
English Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 11 p.; Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting
of the Conference on English Education and the Secondary
School English Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March
15-18, 1979)
ABSTRACT: The impact of bilingual/bicultural instruction on
English education could be a lessening of low success,
undifferentiated teaching. The demand for accommodation of
cultural pluralism in the classroom could result in
training practices and attitudinal growth that will produce
the kind of positive individualization in school practice
that will benefit all children. Federally inspired
bilingual/bicultural mandates prompt state certification
requirements that will introduce linguistically trained and
sensitive personnel into the nation's schools. The social
reality of classrooms in the United States indicates that
many English teachers are or should be teachers of English
as a second language/dialect. Professional organizations
such as the National Council of Teachers of English have
historically supported the recognition of linguistic
diversity in the classroom. Teaching English as a second
language strategies that can be useful include: an eclectic
approach to grammar teaching, insights into the role of
syntax in comprehension, controlled composition techniques
for writing, and attitudinal changes brought by an
understanding of the culture of the child. (MKM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Multicultural-Education; Professional
Associations; Reading-Instruction; Teacher-Attitudes;
Teaching-Methods
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Biculturalism-; *Bilingual-Education;
*Cultural-Awareness; *English-Second-Language; *English
Instruction; *Nonstandard-Dialects
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