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Dual language bilingual education has different terminology in the literature and in schools, such as dual immersion, dual language, or immersion programs. We do not equate the term dual with the more precise terminology of two-way later explained.
We capitalize all races to emphasize their inventedness (Appiah, 2020).
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Delavan, M.G., Freire, J.A. & Menken, K. Editorial introduction: a historical overview of the expanding critique(s) of the gentrification of dual language bilingual education. Lang Policy 20, 299–321 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-021-09597-x
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