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LECTURE 4:
INTRODUCTION TO BILINGUAL EDUCATION

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                          LESSON OBJECTIVES:
•By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1.Define bilingual education
2.Mention the two types of bilingual education and their components
3.Explain the importance of bilingualism
4.Make correct ASL signs of given pronoun words

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WHAT IS BILINGUAL EDUCATION?
•Bi means two
•Lingual means language
•Education, in its simplest form, means the process by which we learn to read and write
•Bilingual education therefore means: having the functional use of two languages, but not native
user proficiency (Leigh & Weiner, 2004:22)
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•*** what does the word “functional” mean in the above context?

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TYPES OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION
•1. Additive bilingual education (It is also known as maintenance bilingual education. It is a
positive type of bilingual education because it adds to a student’s existing language). Examples
are:
•Simultaneous bilingual education: functioning in two languages concurrently (example, from birth)
•Sequential bilingual education: acquiring two languages one at a time at different stages in life
(eg: ASL and English)
•Immersion: using both languages (minority and majority) to help minorities learn the major
language

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        SUBTRACTIVE BILINGUAL EDUCATION
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•It is a negative type of bilingual education. The aim is to make students monolinguals by
abandoning one language for another. Examples:
•Transition bilingual education: a child soon or later abandons his first language as he learn a
second language (early exit and late exit)
•Submersion: mainstreamed language programme without support (sink and swim)
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               DISCUSSION QUESTION:
•What bilingual education approaches are used in Masaryk University?
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                                     BREAK TIME
7 minutes break

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              SIGN PRACTICE: PRONOUNS
•I                               me                          you/you (pl)              your
•He                           she                          his                          her/hers
•Us                            our                         we                           it
•Both                        all                           each                       every
•Someone                something             somewhere          they
•Some                       everyone               everything            eachother
•Themselves            yourself                 ourselves               myself
•There                       here
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