Arguments Against Bilingual Education
I agree and believe that educators want students to become lifelong learners and develop critical thinking skills. I think that failure should not be feared, because from failure comes learning and through assessments learn what needs to be improved and why it failed. I work with ELL students, abed they are adults, so I have heard arguments that only a full immersion program teaches students a foreign language or English - in our case. I have also hear arguments against bilingual education in that it promotes antisocial relationships between native speakers and ESL students. One think everyone agree on in Gardner and Lambert's claim that learning second languages occurs if the (students and adults) are fluent in their first language (Gardner
& Lambert, 1972).
With reference to testing, Crawford states that without some changes or reform, " accountability system cannot distinguish between schools that are neglecting ELLs and those that are making improvements. As achievement targets become increasingly stringent, virtually all schools serving ELLs are destined to be branded failures (2014, p. 2). The problem is that to receive accurate data, the data must be able to distinguish if the Reading or Writing error is from language or academic defect. I do not know how reliable they are and how as an administrator I could forward this data problem to my teachers.
& Lambert, 1972).
With reference to testing, Crawford states that without some changes or reform, " accountability system cannot distinguish between schools that are neglecting ELLs and those that are making improvements. As achievement targets become increasingly stringent, virtually all schools serving ELLs are destined to be branded failures (2014, p. 2). The problem is that to receive accurate data, the data must be able to distinguish if the Reading or Writing error is from language or academic defect. I do not know how reliable they are and how as an administrator I could forward this data problem to my teachers.