Ya saben que estoy bien convencida que los programas de dual-language son los mejores que hemos visto acerca de la enseñanza de los idiomas aquí en este país. Les pongo aquí un artículo que expone un estudio longitudinal y los resultados sumamente positivos para los estudiantes de varias herencias, incluyendo a los heritage language learners.
While reading Valdes, it struck me that teaching language at a younger age solves many issues such as developing literacy and multiple registers AND creating communities wherein the non-dominant language has more opportunity for use in various contexts (case in point: the NHCC is hosting a series of events for bilingual students next week, including a Spanish spelling bee, a concert, and elementary students presenting poetry in Spanish, among others). I think these programs could effectively raise the status of Spanish in their communities, but of course, they must be located where heritage learners have access to them. Fortunately, many of them are.
These schools do not solve the issues Valdes brings up for current students, nor for the many who do not attend dual-language schools, and I'm sure if we could make every U.S. elementary school dual-language (one of my far-fetched life goals...) we would find a new set of issues to deal with. Nonetheless, we might have a functionally-bilingual population to help do it.
De todos modos, el artículo se llama "The Astounding Effectiveness of Dual-Language Education for All"
http://njrp.tamu.edu/2004/PDFs/Collier.pdf
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