America has historically been known as a "melting pot" of peoples. The present composition of the American population only confirms the continuing existence of blending cultures in the United States. The presence of multiple dialects, bilingualism, and bilingual education in the classroom provides challenges for educators to be able to differentiate between language differences (dialects) and actual language deficits.
- http://www.kidsource.com/ASHA/bilingual.html
The ASHA website regarding children and bilingualism.
- http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/myth.html
This website is intended as a place for bilingual parents to find information and resources to help them raise their children bilingually. It is designed, written and maintained by a woman from Pennsylvania who is living in Norway who has two young children. She has some strong ideas about bilingualism and why many of the 'ideas' of bilingualism are false.
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/biling.htm
This website is written by James Crawford who is a writer and lecturer and formerly the Washington editor of Education Week. He claims to specialize in the politics of language. Since 1985, he has been reporting on the English Only movement, English Plus, bilingual education, Native American language revitalization, and language rights in the U.S.A. This website contains his views on bilingual education with references to support his assertions.
- http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
This website is the site of Evolution.com, a small press founded in 1994 and based in Merchantville, NJ. It was started by Claudio Salvucci who developed the site as a stimulus for people who are interested in regional speech. His hope is to 'map' the grammars and dictionaries of regional differences for every major city and region in English-speaking North America.
- http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/
This webpage "Do you speak American?" is sponsored by the MacNeil Lehrer productions of the Public Broadcasting System. It offers audio samples of US regional dialects as well as a variety of other links.
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