Using the table above we can see that we need. 1  108 lux (or 10 footcandles) for ambient lighting. 2  538 lux (or 50 footcandles) for task lighting for food preparation.
At a time when other types of bilingual education are on the decline and the B-wordâbilingualâhas been scrubbed from the U.S. Department of Education lexicon, dual language programs are showing promise in their mission to promote biliteracy and positive cross-cultural attitudes in our increasingly multilingual world.
This other way of looking at bilinguals allows one to include people ranging from the professional interpreter who is fluent in two languages all the way to the established immigrant who speaks the host country's language but who may not be able to read or write it.