Bilingual education in the united states
Bilingual statistics in america...
Post written by François Grosjean.
Ever since I worked on my first book on bilingualism back in the early eighties, I have been fascinated by the state of bilingualism in the United States.
And over the years, I have followed its evolution.
It is important to realize that the U.S. Census Bureau does not keep track of bilingualism as such, unlike other countries such as Canada. But ever since 1980, the language questions asked (Does this person speak a language other than English at home?
What percentage of the world speaks 3 languages
What is this language? How well does this person speak English?) allow us to work out, to a large extent, who is bilingual and where bilinguals can be found.
The 2018 American Community Survey found that a bit more than 67 million inhabitants spoke a language other than English at home.
Among those people, some 63 million also knew and used English and hence were bilingual. This represents 20.55 percent of the population. If we add to this number bilingual children under 5 (not covered by the sur