Local authority provision for bilingual pupils: ‘ESI’, bilingual support and community languages teaching

Summary This paper outlines the findings of a national survey conducted between 1985 and 1988 into local authority provision for language support for the curriculum learning of bilingual pupils, and for the teaching of the languages of local linguistic minority groups in the schools of England and Wales. The full report, Moving into the Mainstream: LEA Provision for Bilingual Pupils, was published in the autumn (Boume, 1989).