Why Bilingual Education

A first step to becoming a bilingual teacher is to gain a basic understanding of how and why bilingual education came into being

• True 
• False 

During the late 18th century more than how many languages belonging to some fifteen language families were spoken by American Indian groups?

• 205
• 150
• 300

In 1892, the federal government instituted the Chinese Exclusion Act to limit the number of immigrant workers from China.

• True 
• False

Efforts to reintroduce bilingual schooling mounted in

• California, Texas, Arizona, Mexico
• Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Virginia
• Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico

The ESEA is still in existence today, providing funds for numerous special instructional programs, each designed to address a specific population and/or innovative program approach.

• True 
• False

 In ______, a group of Chinese parents in San Francisco filed a dass action suit against the school district on behalf of their children.

• 1969
• 1970
• 1971
• 1972

Legal and social contexts that supported bilingual education have changed over time

• True
• False

Teaching children in a language they understand enables schools to meet the educational needs of poor children who are disadvantaged because of their inability to speak English, this hypothesis is known as 

• Disadvantage Children Language Hypothesis 
• Second Language Hypothesis
• Language Mismatch Hypothesis

Reagan's "argument" is that bilingual education is basically 

• Pointless
• Anti-American Education
• UnAmerican

Teaching students first in their primary language ultimately leads to greater English proficiency.

• true
• false