Regarding bilingual education, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. All types of bilingual education tend to be politically unpopular among majority language speakers.
b. The two-way bilingual education program involves majority group children and children with limited English skills being taught part of the day in English and part in a second language.
c. Studies of bilingual students have found that those who achieve a high level of ability in two languages have better general language skills and problem-solving skills.
d. For both minority and majority children, learning a second language produces subtractive bilingualism, that is, the loss of proficiency in one's native language.
ANSWER: d
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