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Bilingual Education Helps Those Struggling with English By : Scholastic With a growing minority of youth in America that speaks poor or no English, bilingual education - along with English as a Second Language (ESL) classes - has become an important part of maintaining a well educated citizenry. Pros and cons of keeping the native language of the adopted child By : Boris Gindis, Ph.D. If adoption is on your mind, you should think through your strategies on native language issues of your future child well in advance. Indeed, the preservation of the first language is a "hot" topic for many adoptive parents who often have to choose between their hopes and dreams and the reality of parenting a traumatized post-institutional child. The article points out at some aspects of development of your internationally adopted child, which you should consider deciding on the child’s native language preservation.