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Content-Centered Learning in the U.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall
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Although estimates of the number of language minority students in U.S. schools vary, there is consensus that the numbers are increasing dramatically. In 1980, there were 24 million language minority individuals living in the United States, including nearly 8 million school-age children and 2.6 million children under age five, one or both of whose parents spoke a language other than English at home (Waggoner 1992). Of the school age children, an estimated 3–5 million had limited English proficiency. Between 1980 and 1990, according to the U.S. Census, the Asian-American population more than doubled and the Hispanic-American population increased by more than 50 percent. Many major metro-politan school districts report a student population speaking more than 60 or 70 different languages, and in one of these, Los Angeles, more than 50 percent of the school age population is language minority.

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Approaches to Second Language Teaching
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 13 , March 1992, pp. 110 - 126
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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