The teacher developsEnglish skills and teaches content in the native language. Two-way bilingual education teaches two languages at once. Allstudents learn a second language. Schools oftencombine the approaches outlined below, some of which involve either bilingual or two-waybilingual teaching. The maintenance or developmental approach fosters parallellearning in two languages.
Bilingual instructors teach academic subjects in the students'primary language.
The objective is to create bilingual students. The transitional approach teaches academic subjects in thestudents' primary language but progressively uses more English. As students' English proficiencyincreases, the primary language is dropped. This method seeks to place studentsin English classrooms more rapidly than the maintenance or developmentalapproaches. It is the most commonly used approach in the United States.