WHAT ARE EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE ARTS?
Lindsay Summers and Patrick Jackson (Mary Ann Sinkkonen) Department of Education, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA 94901 Proposition 227 was passed by the majority of California voters in 1998. This particular piece of legislation requires that all teaching instruction must be conducted in English in all California public schools. The implementation of this law effectively eliminates bilingual education in the majority of California’s public schools. There are provisions that allow parent or guardian waivers to be signed that show their child already knows English, will learn English faster through alternative teaching methods, or has special needs. The law also allows for enforcement suits by parents or legal guardians. However, diversity of language and culture in California public schools mirrors the diversity in the state’s general population. Statistics reveal that the Hispanic population is on the rise and that the Caucasian population is decreasing. Soon enough
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