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Elder, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2009
The paper offers a retrospective evaluation of recent evaluative studies of bilingual programs in the Australian state of Victoria, in an attempt to determine how successfully the evaluation process met the dual criteria of external accountability and development. The programs in question were located in primary or secondary government schools and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Bilingual Education Programs, Program Effectiveness
Stone, James C. – 1985
This study provides an evaluation of the quality of immersion instruction in English as a second language in the Mele-Maat School, an English-medium, British-administered Polynesian school in Vanuatu, an independent South Pacific nation. The study consisted of one year of baseline data gathering and a second year for replication using standardized…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Rabiteau, Kathleen; Taft, Hessy – 1985
The modified American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Educational Testing Service (ACTFL/ETS) oral proficiency scale was developed in response to a request from the New Brunswick (Canada) Department of Education for assistance in comparing the results of its French immersion and core programs. Because the existing ACTFL/ETS academic…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Immersion Programs, Junior High School Students