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In the United States, two-way bilingual education eliminates the problems of subtractive bilingualism by

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Teaching half the day in English and the other half of the day in the second language.

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The term subtractive bilingualism could simply be described in a scenario where a student intends to learn a second language, such that this comes at expense of the student's first language. That is the student loses the ability to be good or better at his first language as a result of learning a second. In other to avoid this, the two way bilingual education concept is used to fix this issue by apportioning period for each Language lesson. Taking half a day on English and the other half in the second language of choice.

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