Bilingual education.

Bilingual education. - London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1997.

The indigenous group has usually been conquered or colonized at some time in the past and the bilingual programs are often aimed at revival or revitalization of languages that have become endangered . Type 2 programs - involve the use of a national minority language which sometimes has official language status in society .Type 3 programs - involve international minority languages that are the languages of relatively recent immigrants to a host country . Type 4 programs - focus onm a particular linguistic and cultural minority group,namely the deaf and hard - of - hearing community . Type 5 programs - are intended for dominant or majority group students and are intended to develop bilingual and biliteracy skills among such studnets . Consists of five programs based on the population groups . Type 1 program - involves the use of indigenous or Native languages as mediums of instruction

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