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Download full textGronholm, Maija – 1998
Generally, immersion is carried out in circumstances where children who speak the majority language are taught the minority language. In this way, the security of the language learners is secured in intensive teaching. In Pietarsaari, Finland, an experiment on language immersion has been started, in which minority Finnish children with a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Finnish, Foreign Countries
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Direct linkJappinen, Aini-Kristiina – Language and Education, 2005
This paper presents a study on thinking and learning processes of mathematics and science in teaching through a foreign language, in Finland. The entity of thinking and content learning processes is, in this study, considered as cognitional development. Teaching through a foreign language is here called Content and Language Integrated Learning or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction
