Dr Lauchlan said that the bilingual children were seen to have "an aptitude for selective attention" and an ability to filter and focus on information which is important.

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New arrivals spoke mostly Spanish, their children were bilingual and their grandchildren spoke almost no Spanish at all.

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Many of California's Latino students, who make up by far the biggest share of children in bilingual classes, leave school unable to read or write English.

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In 2004 she founded The Children's Bilingual Theater, a student-run theatrical outreach organization bringing bilingual programming to venues in the metro-Atlanta area whose cast and crew have reached more than 6, 000 audience members and countless school audiences.

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"We had about 50 children watching the show yesterday and we made it bilingual so I simply cannot understand why they wanted us to stop, " he added.

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Mr. In The, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, stressed that Bilingual Education promotes equitable access to learning opportunities especially to indigenous children, youth and adult learners.

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But an increasing number, particularly children who've been through US schools, are bilingual.

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The bilingual-education experiment, which has shunted too many immigrants' children into a second-rank life by keeping them unfamiliar with the language of their adopted country, may then move to its desirable close.

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