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Foreign Language Teaching and Bilingual Education—A Natural Alliance
Author(s) -
Nussenbaum Gladys S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1980.tb01593.x
Subject(s) - bilingual education , sociocultural evolution , alliance , multiculturalism , foreign language , neuroscience of multilingualism , pedagogy , reciprocal , psychology , linguistics , multicultural education , sociology , mathematics education , political science , anthropology , philosophy , neuroscience , law
This paper is a call to second language teachers in the United States to help promote a multilingual, multicultural American society by actively supporting and participating in effective bilingual education. The author describes a successful reciprocal bilingual exchange program between Anglophone fourth‐year students of Spanish in a high school in New York and younger, native speakers of Spanish in a nearby bilingual elementary school. The weekly interactions serve as a sociocultural and linguistic bridge between two groups of Spanish speakers who would otherwise never know each other.