Mark Hugo Lopez is research director at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (www.civicyouth.org, CIRCLE). He is also a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1996. His work concentrates on youth civic engagement, language policy, and bilingual educat...

Bilingual education policy in Liangshan, China, has been implemented since the end of 1970s using two bilingual school models. This study examines how mainstream and are correlated with Yi population’s social attachment to larger system, their cultural ethnocultural maintenance. The student-reported survey data collected from ten junior high schools Liangshan were analysed a multinomial logisti...

This paper presents a game with speech recognition for children who speak the Mayan language, based on a corpus designed for the English language. The goal of this work is to test whether an English speech corpus can be useful in the development of speech recognition applications for the Mayan language and thus develop teaching resources for the bilingual education.

Implementation of Bilingual Learning in Early Childhood is very embedded everyday life anticipation global competition. Children who are given bilingual learning from an early age will be able to compete with the outside world because they can learn foreign cultures that use English as a language. This study aims describe childhood at Muhammad Shodiq Sumberduren Kindergarten. have two language ...

Nigeria is a multilingual country with diverse cultural background. The language (English) used when was British Colony still the only official and medium of instruction in Nigerian schools. purpose this study therefore to investigate effect bilingual (English English-Yoruba) instruction-mode on cognitive achievement practical skill achievements ecology among colleges education integrated scien...

Bilingual word association networks can be beneficial as a tool in foreign language education because they show relationships among cognate words of different languages and correspond to structures in the mental lexicon. This paper discusses possible technologies that can be used to generate and represent word association networks.

This introduction situates the focus of this special issue within walls a bilingual education program where authors examine their pedagogical and curricular practices, trajectories, ...

Previous research has emphasized the importance of language for learning mathematics. This is especially true when mathematical problems have to be extracted from a meaningful context, as in arithmetic word problems. Bilingual learners with a low command of the instructional language thus may face challenges when dealing with mathematical concepts. At the same time, speaking two languages can b...

Evaluating a bilingual education program in Spain: the impact beyond foreign language learning* We evaluate a program that introduced bilingual education in English and Spanish in primary education in some public schools of the Madrid region in 2004. Under this program students not only study English as a foreign language but also some subjects (at least Science, History and Geography) are taug...