CRITIQUE OF NON-FICTION BOOK
July 29, 2007
Yumiko Kose

In the book “ETHICS AND EDUCATION IN LIGUISTICALLY DIVERSE CLASSROOMS”(Lincom Europa, 2005), the writer John Ippolito states that ethicality is tied to the relation between linguistically diverse students and teachers. His study has a lot in common with educational research into second language learning. I understand that teachers with linguistically and culturally minority backgrounds are needed because they can share their experiences with students with similar backgrounds. Both two-way immersion programs and heritage language programs have aims. The writer explains that the motivation for two-way immersion programs can be understood as a response to a real relation between language minority and language majority students which is linked to the relation between a self and an other and in heritage language programs, responsibility of self for other may represent a maintaining of the other’s difference. I agree that two-way immersion programs is a response to difference as the writer explains that a more responsive approach to linguistically and culturally diverse students and their families is a response to difference.