English-language education for non-English speakers has gone through various phases of development since the early twentieth century. English-only requirements as an integral aspect of the national movement to Americanize all non-English-speaking immigrants proved ineffective in helping language-minority children acquire the necessary English literacy skills to succeed in school. Since the early English as a Second Language programs of the late 1950s, many changes have occurred in the methods... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.