What is bilingual education?

Bilingual education is teaching students to use two languages with equal or near equal fluency.

Students first learn in their mother tongue and then in a second language.

• Concept module: bilingual education
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): B
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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