Areas of future research
- The curriculum should be expanded and implemented to diverse settings.
- Participants should be assigned randomly to groups for testing of curriculum.
- The curriculum should include long-term studies to see how and if attitudes are changed over time.
- Additional research is needed that will follow pre-service teachers into the classroom to see how teaching
practices are affected by teacher
education programs that prepare educators for linguistically diverse classrooms.
- Additional measures and statistical analysis should be examined to determine if and how language
attitudes are changed and how this learning translates into actual practice.
- There should be other measures to evaluate language attitudes besides the LAS.