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"The Importance of Dual Language Education Equality" with Juan Freire

February 10, 2022 BYU Latter-day Saint Educators Society Season 2 Episode 21
"The Importance of Dual Language Education Equality" with Juan Freire
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"The Importance of Dual Language Education Equality" with Juan Freire
Feb 10, 2022 Season 2 Episode 21
BYU Latter-day Saint Educators Society

Juan Freire, PhD

Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University 

"We value multilingualism, but we need to place the same emphasis for language minority communities. We want everybody to learn to be multilingual, but we don't want the multilingualism to be removed from multilingual communities and be somehow stolen, if you will, by language majority communities."

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Juan Freire, PhD

Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University 

"We value multilingualism, but we need to place the same emphasis for language minority communities. We want everybody to learn to be multilingual, but we don't want the multilingualism to be removed from multilingual communities and be somehow stolen, if you will, by language majority communities."