Opening a window into another classroom, this is a 46-minute lecture from an upper division Bilingual Education class. It places Bilingual Education in Applied Linguistics, bilingualism in the individual personality, in society and education. Concepts are expressed in terms of the outcomes for students and their parents according to the status of the ethnic group and their language, government policies and educational approaches, what the teacher models, classroom language use and four scenarios of language shift. These factors result in elite (elective) vs. folk (circumstantial) bilingualism, additive vs. subtractive bilingualism (L2 replacing L1), multiculturalism (encouraging diversity) vs. assimilation policies, maintenance or enrichment vs. transitional (toward the majority language) bilingual education, becoming bilingual and bicultural vs. monolingual and monocultural, valuing non-native language varieties vs. the native speaker model, balanced bilingualism and biliteracy vs. education for immigrants or minorities only in their second language.
