Dual Language Bilingual Education

This book explores the role of the teacher in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) implementation in a time of nationwide program expansion. It provides case studies of teachers in the process of implementing and adapting DLBE and highlights the role of teachers as language policymakers.

This book explores the role of the teacher in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) implementation in a time of nationwide program expansion, in large part due to new and unprecedented top-down initiatives at state and district level. The book provides case studies of DLBE teachers who: (a) implemented the DLBE model with fidelity; (b) struggled to implement the DLBE model; and (c) adapted the DLBE model to meet the needs of their local classroom context. The book demonstrates the way teachers as language policymakers navigate and interpret district-wide DLBE implementation and the tensions that surface through this process. The research, conducted over four years using a variety of methods, highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by teachers implementing DLBE, and will be of interest to both teachers and administrators of DLBE programs as well as scholars working in bilingual education.

Chapter 1: Large Scale Implementation of Dual Language Bilingual Education: A Key Moment in History

Chapter 2: Guiding Theories: A Language Policy and Language Ecology Framework for Exploring DLBE Program Implementation

Chapter 3: Teacher Perspectives on a District-Wide Dual Language Bilingual Education Language Policy Implementation: An Overview

Chapter 4: Teacher Cases: Implementing with Fidelity or Language Separation in a Bilingual Context

Chapter 5: Teacher Cases: Struggling to Implement DLBE or Multiple and Contradictory Policy Mandates

Chapter 6: Teacher Cases: Adapting the Model or Valuing Linguistic Hybridity in DLBE

Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusions: Implementing DLBE to Serve Emerging Bilinguals