What is the impact of other native speakers being involved in an English/Spanish DLE program?
A17: There are other than Spanish/English DLE programs in the country, however, by far, the most common DLE model use Spanish/ English. Still, there are many students for whom neither English nor Spanish was their first language who benefit from participating in an enriched DLE program. For instance, a Chinese native speaking student would become a trilingual. Academic Spanish and English are learned from the DLE program and conversational (or possibly academic) Chinese from home. It is equally economically advantageous, in the era we live in, for a Chinese or Russian native speaker to become proficient in both English and Spanish. The alternative for a Chinese, Japanese or Russian speaking student is a much less academically successful and remedial English only program (e.g. ESL Pullout). Q18: How important is it that a 50/50 ratio for non-certified staff be established? A18: Non-certified school staff play a more limited role in DLE programs than they do staff in traditional classroo
