Trends of development of monolingualism and bilingualism in the educational policy of the United States
Journal Title: Освітній простір України - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 7
Abstract
The article analyzes the monolingualism policy opposed to the policy of bilingualism in the language policy of the United States. The author considers the historical background, issues and implementation mechanisms of the monolingualism policy in the multiethnic state, the result of which is directed against cultural diversity and immigrant minority languages. The article defines sources of English monolingualism ideology, racial hostility of majority toward minority, ethnic conflict between the minorities, class antagonism of socioeconomic groups at a lower level of welfare; political negative reaction of bilingualism opponents; negative attitude to everything that is foreign. The author presents arguments and counterarguments used by bilingualism supporters and linguistic diversity in the United States. Federal policy bilingual education is compared with the American melting pot. Behavioral and linguistic assimilation of immigrants is presented as an inevitable component of cultural assimilation into the dominant society resulting from the recognition of English as the language of equal opportunities.
Authors and Affiliations
Ivan Bakhov
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP443575
- DOI -
- Views 165
- Downloads 0
FORMING OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS-SPEECH THERAPISTS IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROCESS
The article is devoted to the analysis of topical problems of forming professional competence of future teachers-speech therapists in the process of professional training. Professional training of future teachers-speech...
Orientation of political activity as a system quality of the second order in political culture of cadets from higher military establishments
The article sets out to establish structural elements of political culture of a personality. It analyses approaches and terms of the concept of “political culture”, “orientation of political behavior” of cadets studying...
Lighting the educational role of mothers in the Ukrainian press of Bukovina (the First Third of the ХХ Century)
The article analyzes the problem of lighting the educational role of mothers in the press of Bukovina in the first third of the twentieth century. The authors summarized publications in Ukrainian journals and identified...
THE FORMING OF FUTURE PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TEACHERS’ READINESS TO THE PRESCHOOLS’ ROLE ACTIVITIES MODELING: THE CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES
The educational system reform requires the improvement of the pre-school teachers training system, building the educational process on the internal potential of their personality in order to manifest it in the life and p...
ACTUAL ASPECTS OF THE FORMING OF THE LANGUAGE CULTURE OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The article determines the use of information and communication technologies in language education as one of the most important conditions for successful solution of educational tasks aimed at achieving a high level of s...