1 __31__ the fact that between half and two-thirds of the world’s population isbilingual to some degree, a monolingual (or monoglossic) view of bilingualism takesmonolingualism as the norm. __32__ monolingual English-speakers in countries suchas the US and English may consider bilinguals to be an oddity or inferior. Valdés (2015:39) explains: Embedded with the discourse of monolingualism are strong beliefsabout (a) the dangers of early bilingualism, (b) the negative effects of‘unbalanced’ bilingualism on individuals, and (c) the __33__ thatthe ‘true’ or ‘real’ bilingualism will be identical to native speakers inboth their languages.  A monolingual view leads many teachers, administrators and politicians to treatthe two languages of a bilingual as separate distinct systems, __34__ students are twomonolinguals in one. Such a view leads to overly-simplistic notions of languages simplybeing added or subtracted from the mind of the bilingual. The monolingual viewis __35__ associated with the language-as-a-problem orientation, leading to educationprograms that either restrict the use of the home language or to only use it temporarilyto transition students as quickly as possible to the dominant school language. (Baker andWright, 2017)
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