What is it about?
Bilingual education is usually associated with linguistic diversity, but the growing number of African-American teacher candidates in a bilingual education programme at a Midwestern Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) led the authors to re-examine the programme. The article first explains how demographics and legislation affect the educators who obtain licensure in bilingual and ESL education, and then presents a review of national and state demographics, a survey of teacher candidates and interviews with them.
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Why is it important?
The results are used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the programme in order to improve it and to broaden understanding of the teaching methods needed in this bilingual education curriculum.
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This article, written with Amanda Lira Gordenstein Montes and Cynthia Kay Valenciano, reflects my interest in the preparation of bilingual and ESL teachers in the United States.
Dr. Miguel Fernández Álvarez
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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This page is a summary of: Training Bilingual Educators at a PBI, Multicultural Learning and Teaching, January 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/mlt-2017-0006.
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