ABSTRACT

This state-of-the-art paper is centered on bilingual education teachers’ linguistic qualifications with special reference to Spanish competencies needed to meet the needs of emergent bilingual education learners in the U.S. The paper spans over a forty-year period drawing on the experiences and related publications of the principal author beginning in the mid 1980s and up to the present. In doing so, key themes, questions and challenges related to the special issue are highlighted based on the series of publications from 1993 to 2020. Insights into the ways language ideologies and politics of bilingual education teacher preparation entities undermine this need are addressed. Drawing on language education policy planning, the author then offers three paths forward given that not much progress has been made since the inception of bilingual education in the U.S. with regard to the preparation of linguistically qualified bilingual education teachers with specific reference to their Spanish competency.

摘要

这篇最先进的论文以双语教育教师的语言资格为中心，特别参考了满足美国新兴双语教育学习者需求所需的西班牙语能力。论文跨越了四十年，借鉴了这些经验以及主要作者从 20 世纪 80 年代中期至今的相关出版物。在此过程中，根据 1993 年至 2020 年的系列出版物，突出了与特刊相关的关键主题、问题和挑战。解决了对双语教育教师准备实体的语言意识形态和政治破坏这一需求的方式的见解。借鉴语言教育政策规划，