More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these programs is a contentious issue. Recent studies, using...

More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these programs is a contentious issue. Recent studies, using...

This article addresses the issue of the English-only movement in the United States public schools, specifically the Structured English Immersion (SEI) methodology. It discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education by reviewing theoretical and empirical research about the...