Bilingual Education Goes to College

Bilingual programs in higher education, unlike such programs at the elementary and secondary levels, are few in number and of recent origin. And it is only recently that they have begun to attract professional and academic attention. As this scholarly and professional interest grows, disagreements over program objectives are likely to increase. We have surveyed official publications, have interviewed faculty and administrators of two college bilingual programs, and find discussion of program objectives dominated by the distinction between transitional and maintenance bilingual education. Different colleges and different faculty members within the same college disagree on desired goals. When we compare the two programs, however, we find that, though they are described differently from each other, the term maintenance does not apply to either of them. Our survey turns up specific instances where the transitional approach is in fact the underlying educational philosophy even in so-called maintenance programs and we sketch some of the ways in which a maintenance philosophy might be implemented

Bilingual education · Community college · Mathematics education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Higher Education Learning Practices · Psychology

• A Typology of Bilingual Education

  Open Access•William F Mackey•Foreign Language Annals•1970

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