Vietnamese Parent Attitudes Toward Bilingual Education

One hundred and six Vietnamese parents were given a questionnaire to assess their attitudes toward bilingual education and its underlying principles. The majority of parents preferred that their children be enrolled in a classroom where Vietnamese was part of the curriculum regardless of English pro...

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Published inBilingual research journal Vol. 23; no. 2-3; pp. 225 - 233
Main Authors Young, Russell L., Tran, MyLuong T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Group 01.04.1999
Full text online at http://brj
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Asian Americans
Attitudes
Bilingual Education
Bilingual Teachers
Bilingualism
California (San Diego)
Children
Educational Attitudes
Elementary Secondary Education
English (Second Language)
English as a second language learning
English language
English proficiency
Language Maintenance
Language Proficiency
Parent Attitudes
Questionnaires
Urban Schools
Vietnamese
Vietnamese People
California (San Diego)
United States > US
Vietnam
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Summary:One hundred and six Vietnamese parents were given a questionnaire to assess their attitudes toward bilingual education and its underlying principles. The majority of parents preferred that their children be enrolled in a classroom where Vietnamese was part of the curriculum regardless of English proficiency. Parents believed that bilingual education allows children to keep up in subject matter while acquiring English, that developing literacy in Vietnamese would facilitate their English acquisition, that learning subject matter first in the primary language would make the subject matter more understandable in English, that bilingualism had practical, career, and cognitive related advantages, and that it was necessary to maintain language and culture.
ISSN:1523-5882
1523-5890
DOI:10.1080/15235882.1999.10668688