Education policy must ensure that all learners, including
minority language speakers, access school in a language they know.»
A resulting phrase is unlikely to be grammatically correct, and may contain unusual spellings, but it should be understandable to
a minority language speaker.
Not exact matches
First, with many millions using the
language in so many places (many of them rarely interacting with native
speakers) and with native
speakers constituting a
minority of those who use it, people are less concerned about whether they sound convincingly American or British, or write with colloquial perfection.
Languages are dying as improved transport and telecommunications bring different peoples into closer contact, and
speakers of
minority tongues abandon them for the
languages of more dominant cultures.
Leiva and Alabau plan to test the system with a
minority language, even though it is often hard to find native
speakers to take part in experiments.
For example, imagine that Spanish is a
minority language, and a native
speaker wants to read the English sentence «Another label with the same name already exists».
At that point,
language -
minority speakers and their advocates were arguing for bilingual education as a civil right.
However, recently, dual
language immersion (DLI) programs have emerged in the country as effective ways to bring together
language minority and
language majority
speakers in school settings with the goal of bilingualism and bi-literacy for all.
Giftedness is not a trait inherent to native English
speakers; however, there is a lack of instruments that can detect giftedness in
minority language students (Gallagher, 1979; Llanes, 1980; Raupp, 1988; Renzulli, Reis, & Smith, 1981).
Organise visits to or from
speakers of the
minority language.