Finally, strategies about the use of bilingual practice staff were all ruled out apart from the idea of service-users consulting with a GP who was completely bilingual and able to converse fluently in a medical consultation in the same language as the service user.
We identified five core categories of support into which 24 of the 27 strategies mapping in phase I fell: i formal interpreting, bilingual practice staff interpreters, family and friends as interpreters, technologies and visual aids (eg, Google online translation; multilingual posters of body parts), and body language and gestures (see table 4, column 1).
Reflecting on our biliteracy development and bilingual publication practices, we attempt to reveal the social conditions that influence our individual language choices and enable (or constrain) our ability to sustain our commitment to disseminating knowledge in both English and French.
"Mexico Health and Safety Travel Guide" (MedToGo, $19.95) was written by two doctors, Robert H. Page and one of his three sons, Curtis P. Page, who have a bilingual family practice in Tempe, Ariz.
Good practice for the bilingual pupil is good practice for all learners.
Eventually, the study of number processing by bilinguals may also inform educational practices in increasingly bilingual American schools.
Moreover, mothers in both the bilingual and monolingual groups practice the tradition of preparing traditional obento lunches for their children that is important to Japanese socialization practices.
In practice, though, bilingual education now generally means using Chinese as the main language of instruction, while a minority language is taught as a separate subject.
It was lawsuits over such practices that spurred bilingual education's growth.
