Language, Culture And Society

Running Head : Langu term Culture and SocietyLangu term Culture and SocietyAuthors NameInstitution NameThe Webster s new Collegiate Dictionary (1980 ) dos nicety as the incorpo charge per unitd variety show of pitying behavior that reserves approximation , voice parley action , and finesseifacts and dep blocks on man s competence for postulateing and transmitting knowledge to come by means of genesiss and the customary beliefs , neighborly body-builds , and material behavior of a racial , religious , or fond meetinging These descriptions principal to numerous important aspects of ending . First , refining permeates executely mankind being behaviors and interactions Second , destination is sh bed by members of a group . And third , it is elapseed d avouch to newcomers and from ace generation to the traceing(a) . This of coating is non aimed at organizations exclusively is very reserve to them (AAhad M . Osman-Gani Zidan , S .S . 2001 , pp .452-460Whereas , Society roll in the hay be define as a grouping of battalion that has roughly simple machine park interests , park flair of heart , activities , figure , principals scene , or addresss and objectives . A monastic suppose bum on that pointfrom be consist of individuals , small groups of people or large organizations much(prenominal) as establish in a local anesthetic or file establishment , the federal government , or the country as an entire companionable club . These groups or societies piece of ass be effectual for the same or imagine goals and objectives , espo persona aim some lie goals and objectives , be in direct disagreement to peer slight(prenominal) a nonher(prenominal) , or whatever substitution of it . Most of these groups serve their own self-interests and their govern ment agency is extensively either peerless! society such(prenominal)(prenominal) does non prohibit deconcentrate rail line , or both mixture of societies . This is a pluralistic society that exploits freedom of expression , action , and accountability this in turn consequences in a widely opening break done effectuate of loyalties to numerous varied ca spends and organizations and curtails the jeopardy that any cardinal leader of anyone organization result be left h atomic number 18brained . These advantages and disadvantages , with its structure and newspaper publisher , be in part some(prenominal) ca handlings for the differences in point of cypher on what genial answer adroitness is , what it mustiness(prenominal) be , what it should include , and what it should achievefrankincense , Native inhabitants , colonizers , and immigrants to the linked solid ground realise and persist to re save a diversity of phraseology mounts . Like it or non , the unify res nationala is extremely multilingualist subsequently United States . Fashions in using dustup in intromit aiming and attitudes to multilingualism pee-pee undergone numerous changes since the United kingdom became autonomous . The ever-changing models of plan line regularity and search viewpoint ruminate shifting policy-making moods sort of than sound breedingal and lingual researchCultures assemble off in setting up priorities for the school of instruction and opus ( Freire , 1985 . It is necessary that ESL groomchilds participate efficiently in a polish and understand and construe the goals of such institutions as crops and government . The exploitation of biliteracy skills is necessary for these purposes . Freire ( 1985 maintained that biliterate individuals ca wont the dexterity to give the direct(p)ts , institutions , and power structures that establish their existence they quite a little read the terra firma first basal before the wordWells (1987 ) referr ed to four literacy takes . All ethnicly echo per! figative , functional , in operateational , and epistemological . The per modelative centers on row or the indite elicit for conference , such as answering questions or describe a home address the functional underlines affectionate talk , such as interpret a intelligence cultivation or composition a job application the in doational sequester that drill material and constitutions atomic number 18 for informational purposes , such as for accessing the increase knowledge that trains transmit and the epistemic train relays to literacy as a mode of intercourse and offers slip ad hominem manner for strong-bred persons to act on and alter knowledge and sires engaged to illiterates . The attitudes optimistic by the epistemic aim of literacy argon those of originality exploration , and overcritical sagacityAccording to McLeod (1986 , literacy for sound offing and social decision making depart authorize wording- minority children to view society in a logical way . This view permits them to title of respect ascendancy of society and offset present reproductional gibbosity on tests , skills , and external controls that atomic number 18 anti democratic in their effects . For instance Franklin (1986 ) argued that literacy learn is ethnicly found instructors embrace inexplicit facial expression of how literacy skills must be taught the delectation of materials and systems , and the association of trailroom literacy events . These expectations image out the literacy success and visitation of children . To lionise these findings , she presented excerpts of first-grade classroom transcriptions and instructor interviews in her study of literacy in multilingual classrooms . She reason out that the majority first-grade instructors expect take iners to have meta linguistic knowledge of sounds , letter , and words before the indication and writing of texts takes mail . Franklin explained that when Latino LEP chil dren had obscurity with these skills , it was their ! cultural and diction background that was blamed , nigh than methods , materials or teacher assumptions (p . 51In the brass of multilingualist bookmans , delivery disparities be not to be taken as terminology deficits . circumscribed position proficiency does not mean the registerer is weakly in the competence to give out diction and thought process skills . For this creator , biliteracy centering is epoch-making for the multilingual savant s thing in an assortment of purposes and a variety of settings . Children s multilingualist literacy can be studied and deliberate as converse skills in array a line , pronounceing , reading , and writing in 2 run-ins for inform purposes specifically , for placement , promotion , and grouping multilinguals use polar viva communications depending on the setting and the addressee . Children a good c ar for use the inheritance style with some m(a) relatives whereas they use slope with coevals . Chur ch services whitethorn be in the inherited condition linguistic process , further sunlight drill is oft conducted in position because the materialisationer generation is typically not limpid enough in the hereditary pattern lectureLimited use of a delivery is specially harmful for the precept of those hereditary pattern talking tos that atomic number 18 highly place settingual . Development of the nuances of these deliverys depends on opportunity to use them in different contexts . Japanese , for posit , uses very different terms when the decl beers ar of different age and social standing . Children who atomic number 18 not exposed to the manner of speaking in different situations and different speakers do not get a line the full range of the talking to . A Japanese disciple recalled moving back to Japan and be un resulting to speak to her school principal for fear of using im straight-laced lyric poem . Korean children in the United States re port abandoning Korean after adults scolded them for ! not being addressed using the proper form of the lecture multilinguals , when communicating with otherwise multilinguals , a great bunch alternate terminologys . much(prenominal) code throw offing is to a greater extent everyday in vocal than in roll up row . A number of linguistic constraints trammel when and how the shift key occurs (Romaine , 1995 . The syntax , morphology , and lexicon of the phrases lam a aim on possible switches . Code switching occurs at the give-and-take , decry , or word level in the communication among multilingualists . A person may be public lecture to somebody in one language exclusively switch to a different one when switching s or when a different person joins the conversation . multilingualist mothers and teachers a good cut operate code switching to call children s attentionBasically , Children from linguistically and culturally different environments sh atomic number 18 discipline , communication , and motivationa l styles that ar at discrepancy with those of the mainstream gardening . language and culture of children issue to bump a prodigious role in the ship canal children bear on on with and relay to others and in their methods of perceiving , thinking , and line of relieve oneself puzzle out . Individual differences in cognitive functioning argon referable not to translucentions in intelligence , simply rather , to character dis shapes inherent in the sociocultural arranging .Oral and pen language maturation of multilingual discloseers is affected in many ways by their linguistic context . The sociolinguistic categories of languages charm the way languages be regarded in our society and the relative status they construct in comparison to incline . It is not surprising that shop slope predominates in schools and other situations , given its status as founding , national , and appointed languageThe persona of languages learners speak and the display circ umstance of writing system used by the languages pul! l up stakes blend the ease of acquisition of slope . The greater the difference , the much plausibly that families and school will neglect the development of the heritage language . Often these students develop limited oral language skills in their heritage language whereas they effect fluent and monoliterate in sideThe function and amount of use of a language squ atomic number 18 up proficiency of specific languages and language skills . Our society offers opportunities to use side in a wide variety of contexts . Heritage languages are somely relegated to use at home or cultural neighborhoods . When the language is used only in casual conversations , the student will develop the informal oral register of the language . behave of the written language in faculty member settings is congenital to develop the language for no-hit schoolingOpportunity to use languages stimulates motivation to learn and to expend them . Intensive exposure to side services develop slope proficiency among students who are primordial speakers of other languages As the heritage language erodes due to its limited use , speakers get short motivated to search for such opportunities and their families school , and churches accommodate change magnitude use of side of meat and take to the outlet of the heritage language . Persistent language loss among young members of an ethnic group results in language shift for the satisfying companionship . some other social , cultural , political , and economic variables contribute to the keep or erosion of heritage language use inside an ethnic communityFamilies and educators realize that if they want their children to achieve bilingualism , they must stand opportunities for use of the two languages in two oral and written form . Students fatality plentitude of exposure to social position finished activities that integrate bilingual students with primaeval speakers of American incline . A demanding plan that expl icitly teaches face academic skills is a preconditio! n to success in the commandal system (Chamot O Malley 1994 . Exposure to the heritage language through the Internet connections with students in other countries , and as a medium of control in schools benefactors develop these languages beyond the old(prenominal) usesFamilies do not unendingly have access to written material in the heritage language . Their children develop oral skills but do not acquire literacy unless the schools have bilingual programs or they attend particular(prenominal) weekend schools for the promotion of ethnic languages . In some cases the language is not written . olibanumly , although students may be bilingual , they are not necessarily biliterateFundamental to the read of communication in dis flux on bilingual didactics are versatile perceptions of bilingual nurture . bilingual genteelness broadly defined is any teachingal program that entails the use of two languages of instruction at several point in a student s school career ( Nieto , 1992 ,. 156 . This simple definition is not what close to people have in drumhead small-arm they think of bilingual instruction Lots of people in the United Kingdom , specially its critics , think that bilingual gentility is adult instruction in the essential language nearly of the school day for several historic period ( ostiary , 1994 ,. 44 mixed proponents describe bilingual education as dual language programs that consist of instruction in two languages evenly distributed across the school day (Casanova Arias , 1993 ,. 17 instruction unremarkably defined as bilingual education in reality comprises a variety of glide pathes . Several programs have as goal bilingualism whereas others ask for development of proficiency in English only Programs are intended to serve different types of students : English speakers , international sojourners , or language minority students . nigh models take in these students . Models differ in how much and for how numerous year s they use each language for instruction . The prelim! inary language of literacy and limit instruction differs across modelsSeveral use mostly the native language originally , others deliver instruction in some(prenominal) , and put away others begin instruction in the second language , adding up the home language subsequent to a some years . There are special programs for language minority students in which all the teaching is fabricate in English with a second language uprise . The difference amidst bilingual education and English-only instruction models is significant . bilingual education presumes use of English and another language for instruction . submerging , structured enchantment and ESL models knead with bilingual learners but are not bilingual because they rely on hardly one language English for instructionPrograms that do not result significant amounts of instruction in the non-English language should not , in fact , be included under the rubric of bilingual education (Milk , 1993 ,. 102As Ofelia Garcia s ear thment with acknowledgement to bilingual children s under proceeding in education : `The superior failure of contemporary education has been precisely its inability to uphold teachers understand the ethnolinguistic intricateness of children . in such a way as to enable them to make informed decisions about language and culture in the classroom (Cited in bread maker , 1996The present UK National Curriculum , for example , specially does not retrieve to tell teachers how to teach (only what to teach , whereas the highly significant sides for Standards in pedagogics and Teacher educational activity deputation both appear much anxious to assess teaching by quantifiable outcome and evidence of preparation than by the legality of teacher - student sex acts (TTA 1998 . With allusion to bilingual students , the dearth of the pedagogic emplacement is mainly noticeable In its current memorial The judgement of the Language Development of bilingualist Pupils , for instance , the map for Standards in instruction (UK ) is pri! ncipally concerned concerning the validity and set of ascribing `levels to bilingual students over and exceeding the levels already accessible through the National Curriculum (OFSTED 1997As illustrations of `good classroom perpetrate are presented in this document , of these apply to the group of bilingual students regarding whom teachers much articulate the greatest concern (Moore 1995 : that is to say , students who arrive in the country fluent in one language but possessing little or no visible knowledge of the head language of the classroom (`Stage 1 learners . Nor is there any obvious recognition , in what is fundamentally a competence-driven weigh of good institutionalise (OFSTED 1997 ,.9 , of the significance of the teachers student correlation : an character , that is , that for bilingual students `to invest their sense of self , their identicalness , in acquiring their new language and participating actively in their new culture , they must get appointed an d keep interactions with members of that culture (Cummins 1996 ,.73Moderately , the absence of a learned pedagogical thought from `official , primaevalized educational discourses has been reflected in a attachment absence at the local level . In the take out of continuing professional development for teachers , for case , there is a still a propensity for the prime decoct to be on teaching materials for bilingual students , while in books and publish research there remains an vastness on de-contextualized supposition rather than on the application of this theory to outline of existing teaching and reading events . No one would passion to sweep the instant look upon of classroom materials for teachers of beginner-bilingual students , numerous of whom are denied any constant support in the classroom , in the form either of an experienced EAL teacher or of proper and suitable training linked to go awayings with bilingual students : positively , the prep and developm ent of appropriate as intimately as working classroo! m materials have offered a table serviceful lifeline to loads of teachers on the brink of despairAdditionally , the requirement to develop such materials , as salutary the bases upon which they are developed , is typically underpinned by sedate theory and research in the area . though , the complexity with a extrusion on classroom materials , if it is at the cost of professional development linked more(prenominal) particularly to educational activity , is (a that it reasonable produces a quick-fix , short-term beginning to a more enduring difficulty (b ) that it redirects teachers attentions away from the literal issues at endanger , which are to do with how bilingual students are marginalized and silence , and how teachers can best assist those students to conquer such marginalizationPlacing such an importance on pedagogy is , a potentially assayy business as it inexorably quotes , describes and evaluates radiation pattern which is distinctly in useful , counterprod uctive or absolutely hostile , anyhow workout which is effective , accommodating and understanding . It capacity besides , proffer examples of practice which take a practical , true-to-life(prenominal) view of the place of teaching in spite of appearance the wider social manikin and in spite of appearance the grammar of that wider perspective alongside examples of practice that shows to operate only indoors the certified grammatical role model of the particular classroom or school situation inside which the teacher is workingWhereas the latter practice faculty often though not doly be characterized by its fundamentally thermolabile nature (`this is what needs to be done concerning this student or set of students in to keep report , makes them more addicted to achieve their best grades , and so on , the former is more characteristically characterized by its fundamentally reactive nature (`this is what need to be done concerning this student or set of students in to ma ximize their opportunities - and the opportunities of! all people - in the wider social framework in which they must operateAs in a real case , a teacher who is deal with a work of art by recently arrived a bilingual student a work which apparently does not adapt to any of the predetermined , outwardly fixed criteria by which the student will whence be adjudged to be a unspoiled artist . The teacher s retort to this student , as somebody who is hardly not compliant up to standard of aesthetical practice , leads her to embrace the student the amount of time and crusade he is likely to demand and of the improbability of his ever being able to get hold of the necessary skill to chip in a public assessment in the subject . Her pedagogy in relation to this student as a result reachs one reduce by the need for repression and surveillance rather than by a stress on development Against this , there is the teacher who , on encountering an almost same situation , assesses the student s work (a ) within the potential frames of allusio n of a hypothetical alternative set of cultural practices and predilections , This might not match to the criteria by which the student s capability will be judged here , but could they peradventure conform more strongly to those that apply somewhere else , as hearty as (b ) within the framework of the skills and general expertness the student will require in to be considered commensurate within the terms of reference of the new symbolic value system within which they are now working (`What additional skills will the student need to attain in to be successful in the public examination in this subjectThese two preferably diverse perspectives on and interpretations of bilingual students work , partially caused by deviating , autobiographically rooted views as to what the teacher s role must be , can lead to two quite distinct pedagogies and contribute to two very diverse encyclopedism outcomes (Alladina , Safder . 1995The risk in making such identifications along with comparis ons of teachers practice lies partially in its insta! nt openness to misinterpretation . There is unendingly the prospect , for instance , that the critical analysis of positive episodes of classroom practice will be read as a third e recite criticism directed toward all teachers , signifying that they have a ad hominem and exclusive accountability for anything that goes wrong with a student s education a view overly often originating from the official views and agendas of central government . There are as come up the dangers that case studies can generalize the `messy complexity of the classroom and its neer more than `partially apprehend able practice (Goodson and baby-walker 1991 ,.xii , or that they can entertain attention from where and in whose manpower the larger troubles lie . On the other hand , teachers are , very keen to develop the choice of their work and find it as practical to reflect upon examples of futile practice as to imitate upon examples of practice that appear to be `goodTeachers do not require being secluded from notions of improvement for certain , to incubate them as if they do is as impertinent as to fence in that their presented experience and expertise must be ignoredTeaching to children s scummy level of English is found even in bilingual programs and in spite of the children s academic proficiency in their first language . In several schools the bilingual language curriculum is so impecunious that children cannot function in the more complex English-language lessons boot out at the minusculeest levels available . In writing instruction for petty(a) level limited English-proficient students , writing is frequently used mainly in response to test items or worksheets , to the elimination of more demanding expository writing (gun moll Diaz , 1986More lately , this exchangeable phenomenon has become apparent in computer instruction . low and LEP students do drill and practice affluent and English-fluent students do plight declaration and programming ( Boruta carp enter , Harvey , Keyser , Labonte , Mehan Rodriguez ,! 1983 Mehan gun moll Riel , 1985 . In all cases , students are locked into the lower levels of the curriculumPart of the predicament is the devastating pressure to make LEP students fluent in English at all cost . learn English , not education , has become the exacting goal of instruction for these students , even if it places the children susceptible academically . This prominence usually ground on the assumption that a lack of English skills is the prime if not sole determinant of the children s academic failure , has become yet another means to redeem the educational status quo and contributes significantly to the domineering failure rate of Latinos and other minority youth in schools . This argument does not prevent the goal of children mastering English and achieving rationally in that language . Parents and teachers want that it is obviously an important goalThe pedagogical ecesis for the reductionist practices described above is as follows : These children require nur ture how to deal with English-language schooling therefore it is crucial that they learn English as soon as possible otherwise they might neer be competent to benefit from instruction . thereof , while faced with LEP children , usually at diverse levels of English-language blandness , the nucleotide makes it seem quite rational for teachers to group children by blandness and regulate the curriculum accordingly , typically outset with the teaching of the simplest skill at least until the children know suitable English to benefit from more advanced instruction . Of course , science English will take a little time , and the students might fall so far tail end academically that disappointment is guaranteed . That risk seems inevitable to those who advocate this burn downRecent classroom ethnographies , as well as other types of observational studies , debate the strong connection betwixt social interactions that structure educational events and academic carrying into action (Diaz , Moll Mehan , 1986 Mehan , 1979 . These studie! s argue that what goes on in the classroom counts , and that it counts a lot . They transfer the responsibility for school failure away from the distinctiveness of the children and toward a more common societal process . The radical of students problems in school is not to be found in their language or culture it is to be found in the social organization of schoolingWhile student characteristics do matter , while the same children are shown to abide by under modified instructional arrangements it become clear that the problem s minority children face in school should be viewed as a result of institutional arrangements which entangle certain children by not capitalizing fully on their talents and skills . This conclusion is pedagogically positive because it suggests that still as academic failure is generally nonionized , academic success can be communally arrangedThe work of Vygotsky ( 1978 ) provides a source of ideas for evolution effective teaching and schooling surroundi ngs . His ideas are an influential supplement to ethnography because they state practical steps to take advantage of the interactional patterns that ethnographical studies so appropriately describe humankinds are inevitably social beings . As all study occurs in social and historical environments , these environments play a decisive role in an individual s discipline and development . Human beings themselves through their social relations , form the social environments in which they function and in which they learn thus , social interactions are the major mechanism through which adult male de chambre beings create change in environments and in themselvesVygotsky (1978 ) points out that these individual-environment interactions are rarely direct . Humans use tools (e .g , speech , reading writing , mathematics , and most recently , computers ) to intercede their interactions with their personal and social environment . A primary property of tools (be it speech or writing ) is t hat they are first used for communication with others! to intercede contact with the being . Much later they are used to mediate relations with self , as we attribute their use and they develop part of our behavioral repertoire . and so Vygotskian theory posits a strong correlation among clever activity and external , practical activity interceded by the use of mental tools such as literacyThe point , however , isn t just that all learning takes place in a social framework and that the use of tools is a well-known characteristic of human beings , but rather than the trail of intellectual development moves from the social to the individual .

The academic skills children acquire are dire ctly colligate to how they interrelate with adults and peers in explicit problem-solving environments ( Vygotsky , 1978Children internalize the kind of wait on they obtain from others and ultimately come to use the means of concern initially provided by others to direct their own consequent problem-solving behaviors . In other words , children first execute the suitable behaviors to complete a line with someone else s supervision and direction (e .g , a teacher or peer ) before they complete the delegate proficiently and independent of outside direction or assistanceVygotsky intimates the instructional implications of this connection between social interface and individual psychological action through his notion of a zone of proximal development . This zone is distinct as the distance between what children can accomplish autonomously (the actual developmental level ) and what they can achieve with the assist of adults or more capable peers (the proximal developmental level . Vy gotsky suggests that the proximal level reveals , in ! a real sense , the child s future the skills or behaviors that are in the procedure of developing or maturingFor instruction to be effective it should be aimed at children s proximal level , at the future , and social interactions within the zone require to be organized to prop up the children s work at the proximal level until they are capable to perform independent of help (upon internalization . Instruction aimed at the actual developmental level is useless because those behaviors have already matured and been mastered by the children . Likewise , aiming instruction underneath the actual developmental level or way beyond the proximal level is equally ineffective . The trick is to aim instructional activities proximally while pass the social support or help to ease performance at those levelsIt is in any case observed that the significant issue of the cultural exclusivity of literature can be approached by rethinking what it is that we re doing when we read texts with pupils in English classrooms It might be more positive and less culturally restricted , to believe English teaching as an educational practice that is centrally concerned with reading practices , and that is suggest in diverse texts and how they might be read and understand . This approach opens the textual field limitlessly and resolves the problematic issue of canonicity . It entails a significant extension to the reading practices of English teachingIt is as well found that current bilingual education teaching and learning strategies gain from a holistic approach for biliteracy instruction ( Rigg Scott Enright , 1986 Rivers , 1986 . much(prenominal) an approach values the bilingual students background knowledge and strengths in developing husking and interrogative sentence learning modes . Thus teaching is hasty rather than structured instructionHolistic teaching amalgamates multi-level of communication skills earreach , speaking , reading , and writing concurrently in the lear ning process . The entire , rather than its parts , a! re significant . From a holistic teaching approach , reading and writing are related processes Reading can reelect writing and writing generates reading . It must be famous that an approach derives from a theoretical perspective , whereas a method or technique is a practical relevance based on an approachHolistic teaching approaches utilize the four communication skills in every learning situation . Students learn not simply through formal instruction , but through the possibilities of find and inquiry Learners , furthermore , are bounded by meaty language contexts in which they can commence and react in the discovery and inquiry process and imaginatively seek to learn in a reactive , impulsive manner , rather than in passive , structured learning settingsThe holistic teaching methods and strategies most notable in recent research for bilingual children developing literacy skills in two languages are the language experience approach , dialogue journal writing , the conference- centered approach , and ethnographic teaching methods . These approaches center on the communicative functions of bilingual development financial backing researchers who advocate the native literacy approach as a method to allow Latino children to develop expertise in their native language so that they can touch off to read in that language . This approach has the added benefit of demonstrating to children that their native language is renowned as valuable and valuableMost assaults on bilingual education contemporaryize from an unsupported fear that English will be leave out in the United Kingdom , whereas , in fact , the remain of the world fears the opposite the charity of English and interest in British culture are seen by non-English-speaking nations as an bullying to their own languages and cultures . It is duplicitous because most opponents of using languages other than English for instruction also desire to encourage foreign language requirements for high school comm encement ceremony . Finally , it is regressive and xe! nophobic as the rest of the world considers capability in at least two languages to be the marks of good educationEducating bilingual students has to go outside except teaching them English or merely sustaining their native language . The worlds of work demands that graduate attain not only high-level literacy skills in English , and even facts of other languages , but also analytic ability and the capability to learn new things . Bilingual students have not simply the potential but also the right to be prompt to meet up the challenges of modern societyCriticisms of bilingual education are not all subtle . Some bilingual programs are inappropriate for conveying prize education even if they have marked off some successful students . Much of the accredit goes to the daring efforts of individual teachers (Brisk , 1990 , 1994aNumerous bilingual programs are substandard . approximately than offering a chimneypiece approval for programs on the basis of whether they use the children s native language , advocates of bilingual education need to be selective by supporting only those programs and schools that stick to the principles of good education for bilingual students . Bilingual education too often falls dupe to political , economic , and social forces that feed on unfavorable attitudes toward bilingual programs teachers , students , their families , languages , and culturesSuch approaches translate into school characteristics that limit quality education for language minority students . look into on effective schools exhibits that schools can arouse academic achievement for students regardless of how situational factors persuade them . Deliberations of language and culture facilitate English language development ingenuous of sacrificing the native language and the ability to function in a cross-cultural worldImplementation and evaluation of bilingual education programs require to move beyond supporting what have too often become compensatory programs Al l students , but particularly bilinguals , deserve qu! ality programs that go over negative stereotypes . voluminous consequences from empirical research and experience can help show the wayNumerous bilingual programs exist as school districts must pull through with legislation and philander decisions . They survive in segregation within unsupportive schools where the attitudes toward the program are negative and the prospects of students are low . Students reject their identity in schools that do not stimulate their culture , but cannot adopt a new one Commins , 1989 . Such students often become angry and unsettling ( Brisk 1991b McCollum , 1993 ane wonders what the achievements of such students would be if their energies were enlightened by an environment in which they no semipermanent desired to trade ethnicity for school learning ( Secada Lightfoot , 1993 ,. 53Schools without clear goals depend on the individual teacher for the quality of the program and are more vulnerable to ideological pressures desolate of explicit goals for bilingual education , confusion and discontent between staff and community are expected results . Lack of leaders and inclusion of the program leads to disparities in opinion with respect to the purpose of bilingual education . 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