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Such a system of education must think I have more electives to spare than I do, for as a non-English concentrator my valuable literature electives are few and far between. It must also believe that large, overflowing lectures of students, the majority of whom are there to "fill a Core," are preferable and educationally more beneficial than smaller, more intimate circles of students very well-read in the material, students most likely concentrating in that field...
Maybe Crimson Key was confused. Maybe they thought we were the non-English theater. Maybe they thought they were funny. Who knows? Next time...
...other languages are virtually nonexistent. Nor is the issue new. In 1862 Congress defeated a bill that would have required U.S. government publications to be printed in German, then widely in use. In 1975 a similar debate erupted over the decision to require bilingual ballots in places with large non-English speaking populations. That the U.S. is -- and will remain -- an English-speaking nation has yet to be seriously called into question...
...methods. In one, students are plunged immediately into intensive E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) instruction; the idea is to bring them up to the proficiency of native speakers at their grade level and get them into mainstream classes as quickly as possible. The other, bilingual, approach allows students to take courses such as math and history in their own language while devoting a certain amount of time each day to learning English. Once the new language has been mastered, the students can translate and build upon their earlier, non-English instruction...
Traditional programs enroll only non-English speaking students and seek to teach them English...