Publications

Publication details [#46043]

García, Ofelia and Lesley Bartlett. 2007. A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10 (1) : 1–25.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | education | high school | immigrant | speech community

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study advocates the speech community model of bilingual education for Latino newcomers in US high schools, as succesfully implemented in a high school in Washington Heights, New York City.