摘要：Millions of people across the world live in societies where their mother tongue is
not the dominant language. The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure
bilingual education perspective and also identify the obstacles, opportunities,
challenges, and benefi ts of bilingual education for minority students who are
suff ering from language learning. This study examined how certain parameters
such as the attitudes and views towards bilingual education may infl uence on a
bilingual education curriculum development. This study is signifi cant because we
developed specifi c scale, Scale Development of a Bilingual Education Perspective
(SDBEP), to measure the attitudes and views towards bilingual education. The
sample size of the study is composed of 560 participants included culturally and
linguistically diff erent background of population. During the development of the
scale, two diff erent samples were utilized. Explanatory factor analysis (EFA) was
used for the fi rst half (N=280) and confi rmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used
for the second half (N=280). The results of the study indicated that SDBEP could
be considered a valid and reliable tool to measure people’s perspective toward
a bilingual education program. We developed a valid and reliable scale to help
researchers who are trying to measure perspective of a bilingual education program
in all over the world.
