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.
The term is, however, a simple label for a complex phenomenon (Cazden and Snow, p. 9) that depends upon many variables, including the native language of the students, the language of instruction, and the linguistic goal of the program, to determine which type of bilingual education is used.