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Direct linkLü, Chan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2020
With the promise of achieving bilingualism, biliteracy, and cultural pluralism, Chinese immersion programs for students from kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12) in North America, especially the US, have been proliferating in the past two decades. Research on this rapidly growing population of non-native Chinese learners is also growing. This…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Chinese, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
Qiang, Haiyan; Kang, Yeqin – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
The English immersion program in China is a case of educational mode transfer from foreign language immersion in North America. This article analyzes the process of the transfer from the perspective of comparative education, using the model of "four stages of educational borrowing." First, it revisits the recent research on educational…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Kong, Stella; Hoare, Philip; Chi, Yanping – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
This paper investigates the views of immersion teachers in Hong Kong and Xi'an towards the immersion curriculum they are teaching. Teachers are important stakeholders in any curriculum implementation and their views are significant in both evaluating progress and determining future directions. The teachers' views were gathered from questionnaires…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Role
Liang, Xiaohua – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
This study was designed to investigate the nature of activities in an immersion English class and a non-immersion English class in the mainland of China, and to find out the differences between these two types of class through data gained from observation and interviews. Spoken discourse analysis was used to analyze the data, where Engestrom's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Observation, Interviews
Ieong, Sylvia S. L.; Lau, Sin Peng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
This paper looks into the case of a school in Macao nominated as the first (and so far the only) China-Canada-United States English Immersion (CCUEI) centre in the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR) China for the experimentation and application of English immersion instruction (EI) in the K1-3 and Primary 1-2 classes. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Experimental Schools, Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input
Huang, Xiaodan; Trube, Barbara; Yi, Chunlan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
This article reports a study on the China-Canada-United States English Immersion (CCUEI) Moral Education and Social Studies (MESS) curriculum materials for elementary classes (Grades 3-6) with the aim of learning how the curriculum addressed the dual goals of MESS content and English language learning. An analysis comparing the CCUEI third grade…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Textbooks, National Standards, Teacher Surveys
