Tuesday, February 21, 2012

RJA 5b

  1. Leveen, Steve. "How America Can Get Her Bilingual Groove Back." Huffington Post. 21 Apr 2010
  2. Po, Vivian "Rep. Judy Chu: American Children Need Bilingual Education." New America Media. 21 Apr 2010
  3. Dowdell, Sommer. "What Are the Benefits of Being Bilingual in U.S. Jobs Today?." eHow
  4. Paradowski, Michal. "Benefits of multilingualism." Knol: a Unit of Knowledge, 2009
  5. The Multilingual Children's Association. "The Pros and Cons of Raising a Multilingual Child

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RJA 5a


  1. Lam, Agnes. Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949.Aberdeen: Hong Kong University Press, 2005
  2. Ramsey, Paul. A Polyglot Boardinghouse: A History of Public Bilingual Schooling in the United States. Indiana University, 2008
  3. Richards, Jack and Rodgers, Theodore. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
  4. Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs. International education of foreign languages: Keys to securing america's future. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2007
  5. Hinkel, Eli. Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning. II. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2011

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