Bilingual education

[2] The ultimate goal of bilingual education is fluency and literacy in both languages through a variety of strategies such as translanguaging and recasting.

[3] There are several different ways to categorize bilingual education models, one of the most common approaches being to separate programs by their end goal.

[5] Students in a maintenance bilingual education program should graduate being able to have a discussion about any content area in either language.

[9] In transitional (early-exit) bilingual education programs, the goal is to provide education in a child's native language to ensure that students do not fall behind in content areas such as mathematics, science, and social studies while they are learning the new language.

The goal of ESL programs is for English-language learners to learn English after having acquired one or more native languages.

Bilingual programs often combine both language separation and translanguaging approaches to facilitate students in achieving bi-literacy.

[citation needed] In bilingual education, teachers may use different techniques to correct students' language errors.

One such technique is recasting, which involves repeating the student's statement with corrections for any grammatical or pronunciation mistakes, akin to how parents assist their children in learning their first language.

[18] Fluency in multiple languages can lead to increased employment options[19] as well as create more opportunities for intercultural communication.

[22][23] Additionally, bilingual education models have been shown to improve student engagement and attendance as parent involvement in school activities.

[25][26] Researchers have proposed that this could be due to students in bilingual programs having an increased awareness of languages and their writing systems.

Children were punished severely for speaking their mother-tongue, which has caused generational trauma among a plethora of Indigenous persons who attended these schools throughout the country.

The Māori community in the Te Kōhanga Reo region created an early language childhood program that includes traditional customs of the culture.