While the research in secondary lan...

While the research in secondary language acquisition and bilingual education continues to present to view that school programs are effective when there is attention to certain tonic organizational and human features, popular media attacks upon bilingual education programs have gotten on a level stronger. An article by Jeff McQuillan and Lucy Tse in the Winter 1996 issue of this Journal makes a able to endure case for the crucial character that print media reports play in the creation and reinforcement of negative attitudes toward bilingual education, regardless of the research evidence. In this issue, we lead with a series of articles forward surveys of opinion on bilingual education. united important contribution of this work is the recognition that examine results may be virtually incomprehensible without at least knowing the form of the questions asked. It may also be important to understand a significant amount about the words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following and conditions of those whose opinions were solicited. Answers can vary significantly depending upon the precise question. Generally, as often work on surveys in this area exhibit tos one finds that the more common knows about the research evidence forward bilingualism and bilingual education, the more positive the attitudes become. The articles in this issue make important contributions to this literature.

I ask readers to take special note of sum of two units items in this issue. The first is our best effort to correct an error that occurr in the last issue. In the article titled "Proces v produce Writing," the name of Laurie Weaver as undivided of the authors was omitted. We have included a substitute first page for that article; we ask that readers accommodate that page in their copies of the article, which remains the same otherwise. The other is the inclusion of Susan Katz' article forward cultural identity among neighborhood gangs. She is the first place winner in NABE's annual dissertation award competition; we are happy to continue our tradition of securing a place in the Journal to highlight the work of younger scholars.

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