Immersion Education

Author : Robert Keith Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586559
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immersion Education written by Robert Keith Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within bilingual education, more and more programs are adopting the option of immersion education, in which a second language is used as the medium of instruction. This volume illustrates the implementation immersion education in North America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, showing its use in programs ranging from preprimary to tertiary level and demonstrating how it can function in foreign language teaching, for teaching a minority language to members of the language majority, for reviving or supporting languages at risk of extinction, and for helping learners acquire a language needed for wider communication or career advancement. A final section reviews lessons learned from experiences with immersion and explores new directions the approach is taking. This text will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, and others involved in bilingual education.

Author : Tara Williams Fortune
Publisher : Ctr for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
ISBN 13 : 9780984399604
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Struggling Learners & Language Immersion Education written by Tara Williams Fortune and published by Ctr for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides dual language and immersion educators with rich information and practical resources that address common concerns with children who struggle with language, literacy and learning. In response to practitioners most pressing questions this book offers case narratives that recount lived experiences with struggling learners from a range of educational specialists, administrators and teachers; background information and research summaries that provide important information about the existing knowledge base on this topic; discussion of issues as they relate to language minority and language majority learners; and guiding principles to inform program policies and practices. Additionally, the handbook includes reference materials and useful web resources to assist educators in meeting the needs of a wide variety of language and learning challenges."

Author : Kim Potowski
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1853599433
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Identity in a Dual Immersion School written by Kim Potowski and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the experiences of a group of students in Chicago, Illinois, who are attending one of the first Spanish-English dual immersion schools in the United States. The author follows the group during two school years, documenting their Spanish use and proficiency, as well as how their two languages intersect with the ongoing production of their identities.

Author : Diane J. Tedick
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 184769473X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immersion Education written by Diane J. Tedick and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick’s 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education. Questions explored include: What possibilities for program design exist in charter programs for both two-way and indigenous models? How do studies on learner outcomes lead to possibilities for improvements in program implementation? How do existing policies and practices affect struggling immersion learners and what possibilities can be imagined to better serve such learners? In addressing such questions, the volume invites readers to consider the possibilities of immersion education to enrich the language development and educational achievement of future generations of learners.

Author : Yvette V. Lapayese
Publisher : Brill / Sense
ISBN 13 : 9789004389700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Humanizing Dual Language Immersion Education written by Yvette V. Lapayese and published by Brill / Sense. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Humanizing Dual Language Immersion Education positions bilingual education within a human rights framework, moving beyond pedagogical effectiveness in traditional schools to capturing the deeper mantra that DLI revolve around the present realities, epistemologies, and humanness of our bilingual youth.

Author : Bertha Perez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135620849
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Biliterate written by Bertha Perez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers, and policymakers. Pérez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation that were used to test the basic two-way bilingual theory, the specific school interventions, and the particular classroom instructional practices. The contribution of Becoming Biliterate: A Study of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Education is to provide a comprehensive description of contextual and instructional factors that might help or hinder the attainment of successful literacy and student outcomes in both languages. The study has broad theoretical, policy, and practical instructional relevance for the many other U.S. school districts with large student populations of non-native speakers of English. This volume is highly relevant for researchers, teacher educators, and graduate students in bilingual and ESL education, language policy, linguistics, and language education, and as a text for master's- and doctoral-level classes in these areas.

Author : Diane J. Tedick
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847694020
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immersion Education written by Diane J. Tedick and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous immersion programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education to increase programmatic impact and promote higher levels of language proficiency and literacy among learners.

Author : Pádraig Ó Duibhir
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783099852
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immersion Education written by Pádraig Ó Duibhir and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body of research in this volume offers a detailed account of the success of young immersion learners of Irish in becoming competent speakers of the minority language. Taking account of in-class and out-of-class factors, it examines the variety of Irish spoken by the pupils, the extent to which the Irish spoken deviates from native-speaker norms, the degree to which pupils are aware of and attempt to acquire a native-like variety and the extent to which issues of identity and motivation are involved. The results highlight the limitations of an immersion system in generating active and accurate users of the language outside the immersion setting and will help immersion educators to gain a greater understanding of how young immersion learners learn and acquire the target language. The findings are placed in the context of other one-way immersion programmes internationally with a particular focus on minority language settings, and make an important contribution not only to our understanding of the Irish issues, but how the Irish situation can be placed in a broader scholarly and socio-political context.

Author : Tina Hickey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317294246
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immersion Education in the Early Years written by Tina Hickey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide, more parents are opting for immersion pre-schooling for their children in order to benefit from its linguistic, educational, and cultural benefits. This immersion can be either bilingual or monolingual, aimed at early second language learning, or at language maintenance – offering minority language children mother-tongue support and enrichment. This book examines some of the key issues and policy concerns relating to immersion education in the early years. The term itself can be difficult in some political contexts, as can the differing outcomes noted by studies comparing monolingual programmes, and bilingual programmes for minority language children. The importance of training in immersion methodology for educators is discussed, as is the need to adapt preschool pedagogical practices to the immersion context, in order to provide optimal input for young language learners. One of the most pressing discussions surrounds differentiated provision – ensuring that the varying needs of children with language impairment, typical second language learners, and mother-tongue speakers with significant socioeconomic or linguistic disadvantages are all met. Overall, the book explores the challenges currently facing the sector, particularly with regard to training and professional development for practitioners, and the provision of appropriate materials in less widely used languages. Given the documented benefit of high quality immersion pre-schooling, this book fulfils an urgent need to increase the recognition of the sector. This book was published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Author : Elaine Mellen Day
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853593550
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Immersion Education written by Elaine Mellen Day and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes, second language curriculum, and teacher education." "Section I documents the authors' experiences in developing a systematic approach to evaluation and assessment of French immersion programs. Section II includes studies on important curricular and instructional considerations for immersion education, and Section III addresses teacher education and professional development, including in-depth case studies of immersion teacher education programs and immersion teachers' perspectives on their role and needs for support and improvement. A final chapter contains concluding comments and future directions for immersion programs." "Immersion has grown significantly not only in Canada but also worldwide. This collection of research studies will be informative to those involved in intensive second language education internationally."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved