Bilingual Glossary

The placement of ELLs in regular education classes in which the language of instruction is the dominate language. 

Also late-exit bilingual education.  This is a program that uses two languages, L1 and English, as a means of instruction.  The instruction builds on the L1 skills and develops and expands the English language skills of each student to enable him/her to achieve proficiency in both languages while providing access to academic content. 

Texts that demonstrate different writing traits of writers. Teachers can use such texts to illustrate high-quality writing to students.

An awareness of the structure and function of language that allows one to reflect and consciously manipulate the language.

Refers to a person (child or adult) who speaks one language.

The study of meaningful units of language and how they are combined to form words.

The name given to the restricted sort of language spoken by mothers and other primary caregivers to their young children, the main function of which is to teach the child the basic function and structure of language. Adults make an unconscious effort to stretch the signals, exaggerate the acoustic components that are exactly the dimensions that the baby needs to pay attention to in order to form the mental maps for speech.

Refers to a person (child or adult) who speaks more than one language.

The term can refer to an individual speaker who uses two or more languages or a community of speakers in which two or more languages are spoken.