DEVELOPMENT OF BILINGUALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Bilingual education is a broad term that refers to the presence of two
languages in instructional settings. The term is, however, "a simple label for a
complex phenomenon" that depends upon many variables, including the native
language of the students, the language of instruction, and the linguistic goal of the
program, to determine which type of bilingual education is used. Students may be
native speakers of the majority language or a minority language. The students'
native language may or may not be used to teach content material. Bilingual
education programs can be considered either additive or subtractive in terms of
their linguistic goals, depending on whether students are encouraged to add to their
linguistic repertoire or to replace their native language with the majority language
for a typology of bilingual education). Bilingual education is used here to refer to
the use of two languages as media of instruction