Bilingual Education Theory
Theoretical framework
- Theory evolve from within the field
- Theory is adopted from related fields
- New field defined from outside
Second Language Acquisition Theories
- The Native Language Hypothesis or Vernacular Advantage Theory or the Linguistic Mismatch theory ==> Positive and Negative Interpretations
- Krashen’s Comprehensible Input Theory
- Cummins’ Threshold & Developmental Interdependence Hypotheses.