An Annotated Bibliography on ESL and Bilingual Education in Guam and Other Areas of Micronesia
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 299 832 FL 017 646 AUTHOR Goetzfridt, Nicholas TITLE An Annotated Bibliography on ESL and Bilingual Education in Guam and Other Areas of Micronesia. SPONS AGENCY Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (ED), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 88 NOTE 112p.; A publioation of Project BEAM. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; *Bilingual Education; *English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; *Publications; *Resource Materials; Second Language Instruction IDENTIFIERS *Guam; *Micronesia ABSTRACT The bibliography contains 182 annotated and 52 unannotated citations of journal articles, newspaper articles, dissertations, books, program and research reports, and other publications concerning bilingual education and instruction in English as a second language (ESL) in Micronesia. An introductory section gives information on sources for the publications and other information concerning the use of the bibliography. The entries are indexed alphabetically. (MSE) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** An Annotated Bibliography on ESL and Bilingual Education in Guam and Other Areas of Micronesia "PER? ISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS U.S. DEPARTMENTOF EDUCATION MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Othce of Educabona. Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) received fro".3`tnhase pertronnor ormedzatfn originating it 1' Mmor changes have been madeto Improve reproduction quiddy. ((lilt TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN INFORMATION CENTER (EMI." Z:sgvn7 Ze=delsnetrti'tdo::::1 k\\\iii*01" 5 a by Nicholas Goetzfridt Forword This bibliography was compiled and annotated by Nicholas Goetzfridt, Librarian, RFK Memorial Library, University of Guam. Itisthe second such bibliographythathehaspreparedonbilingualeducationand ESL inthe Pacific, the first having been done on the South Pacific while he was with the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.Project BEAM is pleased to have been at least minimally associated with Mr. Goetzfridt's work on this bibliography for the Micronesian Region. Our contribution has been primarily in the form of encouragement and in rummaging through our individual and collectivefiles. We at Project BEAM believe that this document will serve an important purpose. Most of the available literature on bilingual education and English as aSecond Language (ESL)instructionprovidesonly minimalcoverageof Pacific language/culture/educationissues. Moreover, many of us believe that Pacificeducation, almostallof whichisbilingualinnature,representsa distinct educational paradigm. Among the notable elements of thisparadigm arethe following: 1)students and teachers who areoften non- or limited- English speakers and listeners, being primarilyproficientin the oral Pacific language of their homeisland-andoftennon-orlimited-proficientin literacyskills in both their Pacific language and in the English language; 2) Pacific communities in which the Pacific language has strong oraltraditions, with newly developed,undeveloped, or sometimes controversial orthographies;3)verysmall,onlyrecentlyemergingliteraturesintheir indigenous Pacific languages; 4) English oral language and reading programs traditionally based on the South Pacific Commission audiolingual curriculum; 5) schoolsettings with minimal mater a1resources;6) many pre-baccalaureate teachers; and 7) many small one to two room multigraded school settings.The majorityof existingbilingualand ESL researchandcurriculumliterature neither addresses these unique features as they may occur inplaces other thanthePacific, nor dotheydirectlyfocus onthesefeaturesinPacific educational contexts to a sufficient degree. Through Mr. Goetzfridt'spersistenceincollecting and annotatingthe referencesinthisdocument,we now haveaninformationbaselineon education in Micronesia.If thisis combined with his earlier bibliography on ESL in the South Pacific, the greater Pacific information-scapeon education comesintoview. We recommend thisbibliographytoourclients-the educators and parents of children in the Micronesian Region.We feelitwill be ausefultoolintheireffortsto advance thestate of educationintheir islands. We also hope that by drawing the baseline,this bibliographywill stimulateresearchand -writingthatadvancesour knowledgeofbilingual education and ESL in Micronesia stillfurther. Project BEAM is a multifunctional resource center providingtrainingand technicalassistanceinbilingual education and ESL tolocal educationalagencies, institutions of higher education, and state educational agencies in the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia. the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Belau.BEAM is supported by federal funds from the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs of the U. S. Department of Education.BEAM's assistance in the preparation and duplication of this document has been for the purpose of providing resource materials to Project BEAM clients for use inits scheduled training and technical assistance activities. Statements made in this document do not necessarily reflect the policiesor positions of the U.S. Department of Education. This bibliography is available on a non-profit basis from the University of Guam Bookstore. UOG Station. Mangilao. Guam 96923. Mary L. Spencer 4.. 1 Introduction This annotated bibliographyisintendedto provide researchers, students, teachers, administrators and others with a compilation of material dealing with ESL and bilingual education in Guam and otherparts of Micronesia. Its purpose is to improve access to this material andto aid in the continuingefforttoimprove languageartseducation inthe region. Documents selected for this bibliography are in the English language andare restricted to ESL and bilingual education history, conceptS,programs and approaches as they relate to the Micronesian region. Somenewspaper articles and excerpts from monographs have also been included. Although theymay be dealt with in the following documents, actual textbooks, classroom material and testsare not included in this bibliography.Works that concentrate entirely on the linguistic aspects of Micronesian languagesare also not included. Following each annotation is an abbreviation of at leastone library where the document can be found. While most of themare available in Guam, alternative locations for many of the documents can be found through national bibliographic databases such as OCLC. Guam's Union List of Serials can also be used to find other possible locations for serials on the island. ERIC documents are available throughout the United States. The following abbreviations of Guam libraries arc used: R.F.K. - Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Library, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam 96923 MARC - Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam Nieves M. Flores - Nieves M. Flores Library, Agana, Guam 96910 A few documents at MARC may be in collections separate from the main library.Consult with a librarian if necessary. Although entries 38, 133, 149 and 176 are either journal articles or parts of books, they are cataloged under the author's last name in the R.F.K. Memorial Library because they are from publications that are not presently available in the region. Several annotations, while faithfully representing the contents of each document, contain somewhat more detailed information than would probably exist if one were following terse standards that do not allow the research interests and problems of an area such as Micronesia to be a factor in abstracting.Such interests have been taken into consideration to make this bibliography as responsive as it can be to the needs of the region. i 5 1 Documents included in the few pages of the Unannotated Entries section were either discovered at the last moment, are somewhat general in nature but offer enough material on ESL and bilingual education in Micronesiato be considered reasonably relevant or are briefer than the entries in the annotated section (such asshort newspaper articles).Other documents are included in the hopes that they will eventually resurface. A detailed index at the end of the bibliography is designedto provide access to specific main ideas, programs, etc., that are presented in the following documents. A brief explanation of this strategy precedes the index. Users may find it more beneficial to make use of the index first before reading through the annotations.The fact that there are many entries in the bibliography that deal primarily with Chamorros, ESL and bilingual education in Guam simply reflects the amount of material that is availableon these subjects. There are, however, many other documents in this bibliography that are concerned only with other areas of Micronesia. Undoubtably it is possible for many programs and ideas relating to ESL and bilingual education inone area of Micronesian to be transferable, at least in part, to other areas but that of course is dependent upon the perceptions and needs of those using the material. Users of this bibliography must also be aware of theyears in which particular documents were produced and consider this along with changes in bilingualism and/or bilingual education that may have occurredina particular part of the Micronesian region since then. There