bilingual education/dual immersion

family/individual impact

I just picked up an Interlibrary Loan dissertation titled "Biliteracy, monoliteracy and self-concept in native Spanish-dominant and native English-dominant fifth graders" by I. Elizabeth Vom Dorp. According to the abstract, she found that, per the measurement of the Multidimensional Self Concept Scale, the native Spanish-dominant students in the dual immersion program had a significantly more positive self-concept than the Spanish-dominant students in the English monoliteracy program. She considered the first group as accepting, and the second group as rejecting, their native language. Additionally, she looked at family factors such as family language usage and parental attitudes toward the programs. This could be really useful to our project -- not so much the handout, but the oral report. I'll bring it to class.