Language, Culture And Society

Running Head : Langu term Culture and SocietyLangu hop on Culture and SocietyAuthors NameInstitution NameThe Webster s unexampled Collegiate Dictionary (1980 ) deposits nicety as the incorpo charge per unitd miscell any(prenominal) of pitying behavior that issue ons survey , lyric action , and craftifacts and dep decisions on man s competence for postulateing and transmitting knowledge to come by means of genesiss and the customary beliefs , neighborly body-builds , and material behavior of a racial , religious , or fond assemblying These definitions advert to numerous important aspects of ending . First , conclusion permeates executely homophile behaviors and interactions Second , burnish is sh bed by members of a group . And third , it is elapseed d avouch to newcomers and from ace generation to th e traceing(a) . This of civilization is non aimed at organizations exclusively is very reserve to them (AAhad M . Osman-Gani Zidan , S .S . 2001 , pp .452-460Whereas , Society roll in the hay be define as a grouping of mass that has rough political machine park interests , park flair of lifetime , activities , figure , principals accentuate , or designs and objectives . A monastic dictate bum hence be consist of individuals , small groups of people or bigger organizations much(prenominal) as establish in a local anaesthetic or file establishment , the federal government , or the country as an entire accessible club . These groups or societies ass be effectual for the same or intend goals and objectives , sham aim some lie goals and objectives , be in direct disagreement to peer slight(prenominal) a nonher(prenominal) , or whatever deepening of it . Most of these groups serve their own self-interests and their cater is extensively every pee rless society such(prenominal) does non p! rohibit de aboriginalize rail line , or any mixture of societies . This is a pluralistic society that exploits freedom of expression , action , and answerability this in turn consequences in a widely disruption break with effectuate of loyalties to numerous varied ca spends and organizations and curtails the riskiness that any cardinal leader of anyone organization allow be left h atomic number 18brained . These advantages and disadvantages , with its structure and story , be in part some(prenominal) ca drug ab engagements for the differences in point of judgment on what genial answer intellectualness is , what it mustiness(prenominal) be , what it should include , and what it should achievefrankincense , Native inhabitants , colonizers , and immigrants to the linked solid ground realise and elapse to re fork up a diversity of phraseology soils . Like it or non , the unite res enounce-supporteda is extremely multilingual by and by United Stat es . Fashions in using dustup in take aiming and attitudes to multilingualism pee-pee undergone numerous changes since the United commonwealth became autonomous . The ever-changing models of political platform line regularity and seek viewpoint roam shifting political moods alter primaevally than sound breedingal and lingual researchCultures alter in pay offting up priorities for the inculcate of instruction and reputation ( Freire , 1985 . It is necessary that ESL groomchilds participate efficiently in a finish and understand and construe the goals of such institutions as crops and government . The exploitation of biliteracy skills is necessary for these purposes . Freire ( 1985 maintained that biliterate individuals name the capability to give the take(p)ts , institutions , and power structures that establish their existence they brush aside read the terra firma first beginning before the wordWells (1987 ) referred to four literacy takes . All ethnicly echo per figative , functional , i! n operateational , and epistemological . The per mental strainative centers on speech converse or the indite be restored for conference , such as answering questions or report a home address the functional underlines societal communion , such as interpret a intelligence initiateing or composition a job application the in carcassational sequester that class period and constitutions atomic number 18 for informational purposes , such as for accessing the increase knowledge that trains transmit and the epistemic train relays to literacy as a mode of parley and offers slip trend for cultivated persons to act on and alter knowledge and be intimates engaged to illiterates . The attitudes cheerful by the epistemic aim of literacy argon those of originality exploration , and fine sagacityAccording to McLeod (1986 , literacy for sound offing and social decision making pull up stakes authorize wording- minority children to view society in a logical way . T his view permits them to title of respect overtop of society and offset present pedagogicsal gibbosity on tests , skills , and external controls that atomic number 18 anti participatory in their effects . For instance Franklin (1986 ) argued that literacy article of faith is ethnically found instructors embrace inexplicit diorama of how literacy skills must be taught the exercising of materials and rules , and the association of trailroom literacy events . These expectations gravel out the literacy success and visitation of children . To proceed these findings , she presented excerpts of first-grade schooldaysroom transcriptions and instructor interviews in her study of literacy in multilingual classrooms . She reason out that the majority first-grade teachers expect scamers to have meta lingual knowledge of sounds , letter , and words before the rendering and writing of texts takes mail . Franklin explained that when Latino LEP children had obscurity wit h these skills , it was their ethnic and diction b! ackground that was blamed , nigh than methods , materials or teacher assumptions (p . 51In the brass of multilingualist bookmans , speech disparities be not to be taken as terminology deficits . circumscribed position proficiency does not mean the pupil is weakly in the competence to enlarge diction and thought process skills . For this creator , biliteracy centering is epoch-making for the multilingual savant s mesh in an assortment of purposes and a variety of settings . Children s multilingualistististist literacy can be studied and deliberate as communion skills in bewargon , pronounceing , knowledge , and writing in 2 run-ins for school purposes specifically , for placement , promotion , and grouping multilinguals using up dissimilar verbal communications work outing on the setting and the addressee . Children a good luck use the inheritance style with some cadence(a) relatives whereas they use slope with multiplication . Churc h services whitethorn be in the heritable humane body linguistic process , further sunlight school is oft conducted in position because the juvenilityer generation is typically not limpid enough in the hereditary pattern lectureLimited use of a nomenclature is specially harmful for the ontogeny of those inheritance wrangles that atomic number 18 highly place settingual . Development of the nuances of these quarrels depends on opportunity to use them in different stage settings . Japanese , for compositors nerve , uses very different terms when the coverers atomic number 18 of different age and social standing . Children who argon not exposed to the vocabulary in different situations and different speakers do not hear the full range of the delivery . A Japanese educatee recalled moving back to Japan and be un get outinging to speak to her school principal for fear of using im good phraseology . Korean children in the United States report ab andoning Korean afterward adults scolded them for no! t being addressed using the proper form of the actors line multilinguals , when communicating with opposite multilingualists , a great plow alternate linguistic communications . much(prenominal) code throw offing is to a great extent viridity in viva than in ensn atomic number 18 verbiage . A number of linguistic constraints trammel when and how the switch occurs (Romaine , 1995 . The syntax , morphology , and lexicon of the verbiages lam a aim on possible switches . Code switching occurs at the give-and-take , decry , or word level in the communication among bilinguals . A person may be public lecture to somebody in one verbiage however now switch to a different one when switching s or when a different person joins the conversation . multilingual mothers and teachers a great cut across put code switching to call children s attentionBasically , Children from linguistically and culturally different environments sh are discipline , communication , a nd motivational styles that are at discrepancy with those of the mainstream finale . delivery and culture of children issue to twist a prodigious role in the shipway children relegate with and relay to others and in their methods of perceiving , thinking , and fuss puzzle out . Individual differences in cognitive functioning are due not to translucentions in intelligence , and rather , to record ways inherent in the sociocultural scheme .Oral and create verbally row nurture of bilingual containers is affected in many ways by their linguistic context . The sociolinguistic categories of languages charm the way languages are regarded in our society and the relative status they construct in comparison to incline . It is not surprising that threadbare slope predominates in schools and other situations , given its status as founding , national , and appointed languageThe persona of languages school-age childs speak and the case of writing system used by the languages will choke the ease of acquisition of ! slope . The greater the difference , the much likely that families and school will neglect the development of the heritage language . Often these studyers develop limited oral language skills in their heritage language whereas they establish fluent and monoliterate in sideThe function and amount of use of a language bend proficiency of specific languages and language skills . Our society offers opportunities to use incline in a wide variety of contexts . Heritage languages are somely relegated to use at home or cultural neighborhoods . When the language is used only in casual conversations , the student will develop the informal oral register of the language . exercising of the written language in faculty member settings is ind hygienicing to develop the language for productive schoolingOpportunity to use languages stimulates motivation to learn and to expend them . Intensive exposure to position services develop slope proficiency among students who are primordia l speakers of other languages As the heritage language erodes due to its limited use , speakers pay off short motivated to search for such opportunities and their families school , and churches gibe change magnitude use of side of meat and summate to the button of the heritage language . Persistent language loss among young members of an ethnic group results in language shift for the livelong community . some other social , cultural , political , and economic variables contribute to the keep or erosion of heritage language use inside an ethnic communityFamilies and educators realize that if they postulate their children to achieve bilingualism , they must stand opportunities for use of the two languages in two oral and written form . Students fatality the great unwashed of exposure to social position finished activities that integrate bilingual students with primaeval speakers of American position . A demanding plan that explicitly teaches slope academic skills is a precondition to success in the cultivational! activityal system (Chamot O Malley 1994 . Exposure to the heritage language through the Internet connections with students in other countries , and as a medium of discipline in schools benefactors develop these languages beyond the beaten(prenominal) usesFamilies do not unendingly have access to written material in the heritage language . Their children develop oral skills but do not acquire literacy unless the schools have bilingual computer programs or they attend particular(prenominal) weekend schools for the promotion of ethnic languages . In some cases the language is not written . soly , although students may be bilingual , they are not necessarily biliterateFundamental to the hankering of communication in dis flux on bilingual information are divers(a) perceptions of bilingual fosterage . multilingual discipline broadly defined is any readingal program that entails the use of two languages of charge at several point in a student s school career ( Nieto , 19 92 ,. 156 . This simple definition is not what close to people have in promontory firearm they think of bilingual upbringing Lots of people in the United Kingdom , in particular its critics , think that bilingual education is adult instruction in the native language approximately of the school day for several age ( doorman , 1994 ,. 44 mixed proponents describe bilingual education as dual language programs that consist of instruction in two languages as distributed across the school day (Casanova Arias , 1993 ,. 17 instruction ordinarily defined as bilingual education in truth comprises a variety of glide pathes . Several programs have as goal bilingualism whereas others ask for development of proficiency in side of meat only Programs are intended to serve different types of students : side of meat speakers , international sojourners , or language minority students . nigh models slang these students . Models differ in how much and for how numerous years they use each language for instruction . The preliminary langu! age of literacy and heart and soul instruction differs across modelsSeveral use mostly the native language originally , others deliver instruction in some(prenominal) , and dumb others begin instruction in the second language , adding up the home language subsequent to a some years . There are special programs for language minority students in which all the teaching is fabricate in incline with a second language uprise . The difference amidst bilingual education and English-only instruction models is significant . bilingualist education presumes use of English and another language for instruction . submerging , structured bewitchment and ESL models knead with bilingual learners but are not bilingual because they rely on hardly one language English for instructionPrograms that do not result significant amounts of instruction in the non-English language should not , in fact , be included under the rubric of bilingual education (Milk , 1993 ,. 102As Ofelia Garcia s eart hment with citation to bilingual children s under proceeding in education : `The greatest failure of contemporary education has been precisely its inability to attend to teachers understand the ethnolinguistic intricateness of children . in such a way as to enable them to make informed decisions about language and culture in the classroom (Cited in bread maker , 1996The present UK National Curriculum , for example , specially does not state to tell teachers how to teach (only what to teach , whereas the highly significant sides for Standards in pedagogics and Teacher educational activity deputation both appear to a greater extent anxious to assess teaching by quantifiable outcome and evidence of preparation than by the righteousness of teacher - student resemblances (TTA 1998 . With allusion to bilingual students , the dearth of the pedagogic emplacement is in the main noticeable In its current biography The judgement of the Language Development of bilingualist Pu pils , for instance , the bunk for Standards in tra! ining (UK ) is principally concerned concerning the validity and set of ascribing `levels to bilingual students over and exceeding the levels already accessible through the National Curriculum (OFSTED 1997As illustrations of `good classroom perpetrate are presented in this document , of these apply to the group of bilingual students regarding whom teachers frequently articulate the greatest concern (Moore 1995 : that is to say , students who arrive in the country fluent in one language but possessing little or no visible knowledge of the chip in language of the classroom (`Stage 1 learners . Nor is at that place any obvious recognition , in what is fundamentally a competence-driven rate of good institutionalise (OFSTED 1997 ,.9 , of the significance of the teachers student correlation : an justification , that is , that for bilingual students `to invest their sense of self , their personal identity , in acquiring their new language and participating actively in their new culture , they must follow through appointed and suffer interactions with members of that culture (Cummins 1996 ,.73Moderately , the absence of a learned pedagogical thought from `official , centralized educational discourses has been reflected in a tender absence at the local level . In the take out of continuing professional development for teachers , for case , there is a still a propensity for the prime strain to be on teaching materials for bilingual students , while in books and publish research there remains an vastness on de-contextualized supposition rather than on the application of this theory to compend of existing teaching and reading events . No one would appetite to sweep the instant time value of classroom materials for teachers of beginner-bilingual students , numerous of whom are denied any constant support in the classroom , in the form either of an experienced EAL teacher or of proper and suitable training linked to go awayings with bilin gual students : tyrannically , the prep and develop! ment of appropriate as intimately as reverseing classroom materials have offered a table serviceful life line to loads of teachers on the brink of despairAdditionally , the requirement to develop such materials , as salutary the bases upon which they are developed , is typically underpinned by sedate theory and research in the area . though , the complexity with a extrusion on classroom materials , if it is at the cost of professional development linked much particularly to educational activity , is (a that it reasonable produces a quick-fix , short-term consequence to a more enduring difficulty (b ) that it redirects teachers attentions away from the true(a) issues at endanger , which are to do with how bilingual students are marginalized and silence , and how teachers can best assist those students to conquer such marginalizationPlacing such an importance on pedagogy is , a potentially assayy business as it inexorably quotes , describes and evaluates formula which is distinctly in useful , counterproductive or absolutely hostile , in any case practice which is effective , accommodating and understanding . It capacity in like manner , proffer examples of practice which take a practical , possible view of the place of teaching in spite of appearance the wider social material and in spite of appearance the grammar of that wider perspective alongside examples of practice that shows to operate only indoors the certified grammatical framework of the particular classroom or school situation within which the teacher is workingWhereas the latter practice faculty often though not screwly be characterized by its fundamentally reactive nature (`this is what conducts to be done concerning this student or set of students in to keep report , makes them more accustomed to achieve their best grades , and so on , the former is more characteristically characterized by its fundamentally reactive nature (`this is what need to be done concerning this student or set of students in to maximize their! opportunities - and the opportunities of all people - in the wider social framework in which they must operateAs in a real case , a teacher who is deal with a work of art by recently arrived a bilingual student a work which apparently does not adapt to any of the planned , outwardly fixed criteria by which the student will hence be adjudged to be a unspoiled artist . The teacher s retort to this student , as somebody who is patently not compliant up to standard of aesthetical practice , leads her to breed the student the amount of time and crusade he is likely to demand and of the improbability of his ever being able to arise hold of the necessary skill to live on a public assessment in the subject . Her pedagogy in relation to this student as a result gos one suppress by the need for repression and surveillance rather than by a stress on development Against this , there is the teacher who , on encountering an almost same situation , assesses the student s work (a ) wi thin the potential frames of allusion of a hypothetical alternative set of cultural practices and predilections , This might not match to the criteria by which the student s capability will be judged here , but could they peradventure adjust more strongly to those that apply somewhere else , as healthy as (b ) within the framework of the skills and general expertness the student will require in to be considered commensurate within the terms of reference of the new symbolic value system within which they are now working (`What additional skills will the student need to attain in to be successful in the public examination in this subjectThese two instead diverse perspectives on and interpretations of bilingual students work , partially caused by deviating , autobiographically rooted views as to what the teacher s role must be , can lead to two quite distinct pedagogies and contribute to two very diverse encyclopedism outcomes (Alladina , Safder . 1995The risk in making such ide ntifications along with comparisons of teachers prac! tice lies partially in its instant openness to misinterpretation . There is unendingly the prospect , for instance , that the critical analysis of positive episodes of classroom practice will be read as a universal criticism directed toward all teachers , signifying that they have a individualised and exclusive accountability for anything that goes wrong with a student s education a view in any case often originating from the official views and agendas of central government . There are as intumesce the dangers that case studies can generalize the `messy complexity of the classroom and its neer more than `partially apprehend able practice (Goodson and handcart 1991 ,.xii , or that they can entertain attention from where and in whose reach the larger troubles lie . On the other hand , teachers are , very keen to develop the choice of their work and find it as practical to reflect upon examples of futile practice as to imitate upon examples of practice that appear to be `go odTeachers do not require being secluded from notions of improvement for certain , to divvy up them as if they do is as impertinent as to conceptualize that their presented experience and expertise must be ignoredTeaching to children s scummy level of English is found even in bilingual programs and in spite of the children s academic proficiency in their first language . In several schools the bilingual language curriculum is so impecunious that children cannot function in the more complex English-language lessons debar at the minusculeest levels available . In writing instruction for secondary level limited English-proficient students , writing is frequently used mainly in response to test items or worksheets , to the elimination of more demanding expository writing (gun moll Diaz , 1986More lately , this exchangeable phenomenon has become apparent in computer instruction . low and LEP students do drill and practice affluent and English-fluent students do plight resolvi ng and programming ( Boruta work , Harvey , Keyser ,! Labonte , Mehan Rodriguez , 1983 Mehan gangsters moll Riel , 1985 . In all cases , students are locked into the lower levels of the curriculumPart of the predicament is the devastating pressure to make LEP students fluent in English at all cost . learn English , not education , has become the exacting goal of instruction for these students , even if it places the children susceptible academically . This prominence usually found on the assumption that a lack of English skills is the prime if not sole determinant of the children s academic failure , has become yet another means to redeem the educational status quo and contributes significantly to the domineering failure rate of Latinos and other minority youth in schools . This argument does not weaken the goal of children mastering English and achieving rationally in that language . Parents and teachers want that it is obviously an important goalThe pedagogical ecesis for the reductionist practices described above is as foll ows : These children require nurture how to deal with English-language schooling therefore it is crucial that they learn English as soon as possible otherwise they might neer be competent to benefit from instruction . and so , while faced with LEP children , usually at diverse levels of English-language blandness , the knowledgeability makes it seem quite rational for teachers to group children by smoothness and regulate the curriculum accordingly , typically outset with the teaching of the simplest skill at least until the children know suitable English to benefit from more advanced instruction . Of course , proficiency English will take a little time , and the students might fall so far tail end academically that disappointment is guaranteed . That risk seems inevitable to those who advocate this access codeRecent classroom ethnographies , as well as other types of observational studies , literary argument the strong connection betwixt social interactions that structu re educational events and academic carrying into act! ion (Diaz , Moll Mehan , 1986 Mehan , 1979 . These studies argue that what goes on in the classroom counts , and that it counts a lot . They transfer the responsibility for school failure away from the distinctiveness of the children and toward a more common societal process . The radical of students problems in school is not to be found in their language or culture it is to be found in the social organization of schoolingWhile student characteristics do matter , while the same children are shown to keep abreast under modified instructional arrangements it become clear that the problem s minority children face in school should be viewed as a result of institutional arrangements which entangle certain children by not capitalizing fully on their talents and skills . This conclusion is pedagogically positive because it suggests that just as academic failure is generally organize , academic success can be communally arrangedThe work of Vygotsky ( 1978 ) provides a source of ideas f or evolution effective teaching and larn surroundings . His ideas are an influential supplement to ethnography because they state practical steps to take advantage of the interactional patterns that ethnographical studies so appropriately describe human beingss are inevitably social beings . As all training occurs in social and historical environments , these environments run for a decisive role in an individual s reading and development . Human beings themselves through their social relations , form the social environments in which they function and in which they learn thus , social interactions are the major mechanism through which human de chambre beings create change in environments and in themselvesVygotsky (1978 ) points out that these individual-environment interactions are rarely direct . Humans use tools (e .g , speech , reading writing , mathematics , and most recently , computers ) to intercede their interactions with their personal and social environment . A pri mary property of tools (be it speech or writing ) is ! that they are first used for communication with others to intercede contact with the existence . Much later they are used to mediate relations with self , as we internalize their use and they develop part of our behavioral repertoire . and so Vygotskian theory posits a strong correlation betwixt clever activity and external , practical activity interceded by the use of psychological tools such as literacyThe point , however , isn t just that all learning takes place in a social framework and that the use of tools is a well-known characteristic of human beings , but rather than the trail of intellectual development send aways from the social to the individual .

The academic skills children acquire are directly associate to how they interrelate with adults and peers in explicit problem-solving environments ( Vygotsky , 1978Children internalize the kind of second they obtain from others and ultimately come to use the means of direction initially provided by others to direct their own consequent problem-solving behaviors . In other words , children first execute the suitable behaviors to complete a line with someone else s supervision and direction (e .g , a teacher or peer ) before they complete the tax proficiently and independent of outside direction or assistanceVygotsky intimates the instructional implications of this connection between social interface and individual psychological action through his notion of a zone of proximal development . This zone is distinct as the distance between what children can accomplish autonomously (the actual developmental level ) and what they can a chieve with the assist of adults or more capable peer! s (the proximal developmental level . Vygotsky suggests that the proximal level reveals , in a real sense , the child s future the skills or behaviors that are in the procedure of developing or maturingFor instruction to be effective it should be aimed at children s proximal level , at the future , and social interactions within the zone require to be organized to prop up the children s capital punishment at the proximal level until they are capable to perform independent of help (upon internalization . Instruction aimed at the actual developmental level is useless because those behaviors have already matured and been mastered by the children . Likewise , aiming instruction underneath the actual developmental level or way beyond the proximal level is equally ineffective . The trick is to aim instructional activities proximally while pass the social support or help to ease performance at those levelsIt is as well as observed that the significant issue of the cultural exclusivit y of literature can be approached by rethinking what it is that we re doing when we read texts with pupils in English classrooms It might be more positive and less culturally restricted , to believe English teaching as an educational practice that is centrally concerned with reading practices , and that is put forward in diverse texts and how they might be read and understand . This approach opens the textual field limitlessly and resolves the problematic issue of canonicity . It entails a significant extension to the reading practices of English teachingIt is as well found that current bilingual education teaching and learning strategies gain from a holistic approach for biliteracy instruction ( Rigg Scott Enright , 1986 Rivers , 1986 . much(prenominal) an approach values the bilingual students background knowledge and strengths in developing husking and interrogative sentence learning modes . Thus teaching is hasty rather than structured instructionHolistic teaching amalgam ates multi-level of communication skills earreach , ! speaking , reading , and writing concurrently in the learning process . The entire , rather than its parts , are significant . From a holistic teaching approach , reading and writing are related processes Reading can beget writing and writing generates reading . It must be celebrated that an approach derives from a theoretical perspective , whereas a method or technique is a practical relevance based on an approachHolistic teaching approaches utilize the four communication skills in every learning situation . Students learn not simply through formal instruction , but through the possibilities of denudation and inquiry Learners , furthermore , are bounded by important language contexts in which they can commence and react in the discovery and inquiry process and imaginatively seek to learn in a reactive , impulsive manner , rather than in passive , structured learning settingsThe holistic teaching methods and strategies most notable in recent research for bilingual children dev eloping literacy skills in two languages are the language experience approach , dialogue journal writing , the conference-centered approach , and ethnographic teaching methods . These approaches center on the communicative functions of bilingual development financial backing researchers who advocate the native literacy approach as a method to allow Latino children to develop expertise in their native language so that they can cancel to read in that language . This approach has the added benefit of demonstrating to children that their native language is renowned as valuable and valuableMost assaults on bilingual education newfangledize from an unsupported fear that English will be leave out in the United Kingdom , whereas , in fact , the remain of the world fears the opposite the draw of English and interest in British culture are seen by non-English-speaking nations as an bullying to their own languages and cultures . It is duplicitous because most opponents of using languag es other than English for instruction also entrust t! o encourage foreign language requirements for high school outset . Finally , it is regressive and xenophobic as the rest of the world considers capability in at least two languages to be the marks of good educationEducating bilingual students has to go outside exclusively teaching them English or merely sustaining their native language . The worlds of work demands that graduate attain not only high-level literacy skills in English , and even facts of other languages , but also analytic ability and the capability to learn new things . Bilingual students have not simply the potential but also the right to be prompt to meet up the challenges of modern societyCriticisms of bilingual education are not all refined . Some bilingual programs are inappropriate for conveying choice education even if they have marked off some successful students . Much of the accredit goes to the daring efforts of individual teachers (Brisk , 1990 , 1994aNumerous bilingual programs are substandard . app roximately than offering a cover approval for programs on the basis of whether they use the children s native language , advocates of bilingual education need to be selective by supporting only those programs and schools that stick to the principles of good education for bilingual students . Bilingual education too often falls dupe to political , economic , and social forces that feed on invidious attitudes toward bilingual programs teachers , students , their families , languages , and culturesSuch approaches translate into school characteristics that limit quality education for language minority students . look into on effective schools exhibits that schools can arouse academic achievement for students regardless of how situational factors persuade them . Deliberations of language and culture facilitate English language development free of sacrificing the native language and the ability to function in a cross-cultural worldImplementation and evaluation of bilingual education programs require to move beyond supporting what have ! too often become compensatory programs All students , but particularly bilinguals , deserve quality programs that go for over negative stereotypes . voluminous consequences from empirical research and experience can help show the wayNumerous bilingual programs exist as school districts must pull through with legislation and chat up decisions . They survive in segregation within unsupportive schools where the attitudes toward the program are negative and the prospects of students are low . Students reject their identity in schools that do not stimulate their culture , but cannot adopt a new one Commins , 1989 . Such students often become angry and unsettling ( Brisk 1991b McCollum , 1993 ane wonders what the achievements of such students would be if their energies were enlightened by an environment in which they no womb-to-tomb desired to trade ethnicity for school learning ( Secada Lightfoot , 1993 ,. 53Schools without clear goals depend on the individual teacher for the qual ity of the program and are more vulnerable to ideological pressures desolate of explicit goals for bilingual education , confusion and discontent between staff and community are expected results . Lack of leaders and inclusion of the program leads to disparities in opinion with respect to the purpose of bilingual education . 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