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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/10/hakuta_fear_of_bilingualism_is.html

Hakuta: Fear of Bilingualism Is Part of U.S. Culture
By Mary Ann Zehr
October 29, 2010

In the more than 30 years that Kenji Hakuta, an education professor from Stanford University, has been studying English-language learners, he's come to realize that many Americans are threatened by bilingualism, he said in at the seventh annual Brown Lecture in Education Research last evening. The lecture about equity in education is sponsored by the American Educational Research Association.

"We don't need to be scared by bilingualism, although we probably will continue to be, because it's a cultural thing," said Hakuta.

Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/10/hakuta_fear_of_bilingualism_is.html
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