Innovative Language Education Programmes for Heritage Language Students: The Special Case of Puerto Ricans?  

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Tucker, G. Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 2&3 (2005), page 188-195.
Topik: Puerto Rican; migrant; heritage; education; proficiency; achievement
Fulltext: Vol. 8, No. 2&3, 2005,188-195.pdf (103.79KB)

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In this paper, I discuss current interest in educational reform in Puerto Rico, the need for better and more appropriate assessment tools, the growing realisation in the USA that two-way bilingual programmes can provide an effective vehicle for fostering the development of bilingual proficiency, bicultural competence and subject-matter knowledge for heritage language students; and the possible confluence and implications of these three threads of work for the education of Puerto Rican children who participate in the so-called ‘migrant stream’ moving regularly between the island and the mainland. The paper concludes with the listing of a number of prospective research questions that might form the basis for a set of plannedvariation studies to examine diverse factors associated with improving the quality of language teaching and learning in Puerto Rico.

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