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Rickards, Georgette Equerme – 1984
A survey of the opinions of parents of 85 elementary school children in the San Diego area regarding elementary school foreign language instruction is reported. A questionnaire was used to gather data, which was processed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences to provide results and correlations in the form of frequencies. Results…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Elementary Education, Immersion Programs, Neighborhood Schools
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. ERIC Clearinghouse for Languages and Linguistics. – 1980
A variety of material produced by the Milwaukee public school system for its immersion program in French and German is collected here. Items deal with class activities, school activities outside the classroom, and program management. The following are included: (1) multi-language school (French/German) description, (2) publicity fliers for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Farm Visits, FLES, French
Peer reviewedJones, Glyn E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Discusses the reported patterns of address of first language and second language Welsh-speaking children. Concludes that it's possible that by adjusting their speech to accommodate the interlanguage of the L2 speakers, the L1 speakers lessen the need for the L2 speakers to go beyond a certain level of competence. (SED)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Education, Immersion Programs
Peer reviewedVan der Keilen, Marguerite – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Compares the degree to which pupils in the French immersion and regular English school programs speak French and initiate contact with French people. Attitudes and motivations were significantly more positive, and social tolerance and self-rated competency in French were much higher in the immersion than in English program subjects. (29…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Download full textLindholm-Leary, Kathryn J.; Borsato, Graciela – 2001
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence that participation in a two-way bilingual elementary program has had on former program participants' language and achievement outcomes; current schooling path and college plans; and attitudes toward school, self, and others. Study participants were current high school students who were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, High School Students, Hispanic Americans
National Capital Language Resource Center, Washington, DC. – 2000
This study investigated the relationship of language learning strategies use and self-efficacy of French, Japanese, and Spanish elementary immersion students. Previous and concurrent research conducted by the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC) indicated that secondary level language students show positive correlations between the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Terry, Robert M., Ed. – 1992
Papers from the 1991 joint Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)/ Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) conference are presented. Because the state of North Carolina is in the forefront of state-mandated foreign language education in the elementary schools (FLES), 4 of the 10 articles in this volume address FLES…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, Basic Writing, Competency Based Education
FLES News, 1995
Volume 8 of the newslettter for teachers of foreign language in elementary schools (FLES) features these articles: "The Teacher's Voice: Action Research in Your Classroom" (Anna Uhl Chamot); "Teacher Preparation: Using Videotapes in a Teaching Practicum" (Gisela Ernst, Kerri J. Richard); and "Hawaiian Language Immersion:…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
PDF pending restorationFernandez, Evelyn; Baker, Susan – 1993
The assessment portfolio is a collection of materials and forms for testing and recording student progress at F.S. Key Elementary School, Arlington, Virginia. The materials are designed for use in an elementary school two-way partial immersion program. Introductory sections discuss the use of portfolios for monitoring student performance and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
