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Dual language pedagogy: asymmetry compensation.
Abstract
In a dual language classroom situated in a largely English-speaking school, the teacher in this study struggled to preserve the symmetry implied in the ideal form of the program design; that is, that the minority language (Spanish) would be as present and robust in the classroom as the majority language (English).
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Research and context
In the 1998-99 school year Larson Elementary (1), a K-5 school in a small eastern city in the US, implemented its first experimental dual language program, beginning with two kindergarten classrooms. Larson's Dual Language Program was not school-wide, but was housed within a school ...
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