TIME PERIOD |
EDUCATIONAL TREND |
THEORY |
1800’s |
Opportunistic bilingual education |
The child |
Early 1900’s |
Sink or swim, anti-immigrant |
Psychometrics, heredity-environment debate |
1940’s – 1950’s |
Sink or swim, language interference |
Behaviorism, contrastive linguistics |
1960’s |
Cuban refugees |
Cognitive revolution, Canadian French immersion |
1968 |
Title VII, Civil Rights |
Language acquisition |
1980’s |
Retreat from Civil Rights |
Educational evaluation |
1990’s |
Castañeda standards |
General theory |