American educators have argued that the aim of education should be to assimilate a foreign student into the American mainstream, become good American citizens, and not keep their ethnic identity. The proponents of bilingual education believe that this form of instruction belittles a child's ethnic and cultural heritage, creates low self-esteem, and fosters a high dropout rate. Therefore, certain bilingual education approaches encourages students' to maintain their language, ethnic and cultural identity, while at the same time learning a new language and culture altogether.

Bilingual Education provides instruction for students in two languages. The primary goal of bilingual education in the United States is to teach English to students who don't speak English or have limited English proficiency (LEP). Although Florida and California have decided to do away with this educational approach, the controv

Pialorsi, Frank. (1974). Teaching the Bilingual. Tuscon, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press

The St.Lambert French immersion program was inaugurated in 1965 in Canada. It was designed to provide proficiency in both aspects of the French language, to promote English proficiency, to ensure an appropriate developmental level of achievement in academic subjects, and to have the students understand and appreciate the French Canadian without taking away from the students' identity for the English Canadian culture. These goals were shared by most of the immersion programs in Canada (cited in Paulston, 1988).

Bialystok, Ellen. (1991). Language Processing in Bilingual Children. New York: Cambridge University Press

There are many questions concerning bilingual studies. For those whose families speak only Spanish, "it provides an inconsistent and not terribly successful process of remediation" (Kozol, 1985). For many of the most successful English-speaking students, on the other hand, foreign language study is a sign of excellence, preeminence, and academic promise.

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