The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher\'s Course, Second Edition Native English-speaking parents covet the limited slots in the Phoenix-Talent School District’s elementary Spanish immersion program because it gives their children what other elementary schools in Jackson County don’t: bilingualism. Their counterparts, native Spanish speakers, benefit from being able to climb academically in their native language while learning English. For the last seven years, 90 percent of instruction in the program at Phoenix Elementary was delivered in Spanish, but that changed this year after school officials determined that some native Spanish-speaking pupils weren’t learning enough English to succeed at the secondary level.

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