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Second Language Learning in Magnet School Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Myriam Met
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Magnet schools have had a significant influence on second language learning in the last two decades. Designed to reduce racial isolation by attracting students to a desegregated setting, magnet schools offer an attractive option for parents willing to consider alternatives to their neighborhood school. Since the 1970s and continuing through today, school systems have found that second language programs are an effective means of drawing parents and their children to new school settings. As a result, language magnets have proliferated and have had a profound impact on language instruction throughout the U.S.

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Contexts for Second Language Teaching and Learning
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 13 , March 1992 , pp. 71 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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