English-Only Policy and Literacy Education of English Language Learners and Minority/Indigenous Children

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Abstract

This study explores the English-only policy and its implications for literacy and education of English language learners (ELLs) and children of minority and Indigenous communities, through the perspectives of teacher candidates, and faculty members of a Southwest US university. The results show the English-only policy has some serious repercussions for the literacy education of minority and indigenous children.

Author

• Navin Kumar Singh, State University of New York at New Paltz