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Saylor, Cindy – 1983
A collection of classroom activities for French and Spanish language immersion programs includes descriptions of or directions for a variety of exercises, accompanied by a brief introductory section of notes for the teacher. The activities include audio-motor units, a back-to-back activity, a cocktail party simulation, cultural assimilators,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Cultural Education, French
Reusswig, James M. – 1981
An experimental program in California may offer a potential answer to the nation's acute need for bilingual teachers. In the 1960s and 1970s the number of limited- and non-English-speaking students expanded rapidly, especially among the Hispanic and Asian-Filipino populations. Students with such English-language problems are more likely to drop…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education
Met, Myriam – 1978
This volume of the curriculum guide provides the content of the curriculum, the performance objectives for each unit, and suggests learning experiences to achieve the desired outcomes for Level I. The first section on scope and sequence of the program is arranged in a chart format and outlines the content for each unit in the following categories:…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Cross Cultural Training, Curriculum Guides
Met, Myriam – 1978
This volume of the curriculum guide provides the content of the curriculum, the performance objectives for each unit, and suggests learning experiences to achieve the desired outcomes for Level 2. The first section on scope and sequence of the program is arranged in a chart format and outlines the content for each unit in the following categories:…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Cross Cultural Training, Curriculum Guides
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1980
The principal essay, by James E. Harf, describes the state of the art and prescriptions for the future in undergraduate international studies. It points out that undergraduates at some prestigious research-oriented universities and at small, prestigious liberal arts colleges have exposure to international education, but that at the overwhelming…
Descriptors: African Culture, Area Studies, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies
Download full textCohen, Andrew D. – 1975
This article updates the Culver City Spanish Immersion Program. Research results for the third year of the program (1973-74) are summarized, and research in progress during the 1974-75 year is discussed. The article closes with a discussion of a series of research issues for investigation, issues in many ways prompted by already completed…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Elementary Education, English
Peer reviewedRosenbusch, Marcia H., Ed. – Learning Languages: The Journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning, 2000
This document, comprising volume 5, issues 1-3 of Learning Languages: The Journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL), includes the following articles: "Poverty, Race, and Foreign Language Immersion: Predictors of Math and English Language Arts Performance" (Stephen J. Caldas, Nicole Boudreaux); "Meet a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Direct linkSmartt, Jerry T.; Scudder, Rosalind R. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
Repair behavior in university-level students was investigated to determine if students who study abroad use repair behavior differently from students who do not. The Mexico group (N =24) studied Conversational Spanish at La Salle University, Cancun. The U.S. group (N = 9) completed the same course at Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. Pretest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Conversational Language Courses, Spanish
Rhodes, Nancy; Richardson, Gina – 1989
Two numbers of the CLEAR Materials Resource Series that both deal with teaching languages to children have been combined. Number two summarizes the status of foreign language immersion programs in elementary schools in the United States. For each of the 20 states with total or partial immersion programs, the following information is provided: (1)…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, FLES
Garcia, Maripaz – Online Submission, 2004
Background: Integrating reading in foreign language (FL) classes is sometimes a difficult task because of lack of appropriate methodology and poor textbook support. In addition, college students find many readings too difficult to understand or not interesting. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how a teacher-researcher…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Lopez, Maria G.; Tashakkori, Abbas – 2003
This study investigated the effect of a bilingual education program on the achievement gap in language development between at-risk kindergarten students with minimal English proficiency and students who were proficient English speakers. Limited English Proficient (LEP) students were included in an Extended Foreign Language (EFL) program designed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Cobb, Brian; Vega, Diego; Kronauge, Cindy – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2006
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of a two-way immersion elementary school program on academic achievement at the end of the elementary school and the end of the first year of junior high school. Longitudinal high stakes test data in reading, writing, and mathematics were collected on native English speakers and native Spanish…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Immersion Programs, Academic Achievement, Inferences
Calderon, Margarita – 1995
A study in two El Paso (Texas) elementary school two-way bilingual education programs investigated factors in learning through first and second language, analyzed teacher development in a context of complex change, and identified promising school structures for collaborative professional development for these teachers. Of the 24 participating…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language)
Saucedo, Leticia – 1997
A study investigated parent attitudes toward a dual-language (Spanish/English) immersion program of bilingual education, in which both English-speakers and non-English-speakers are participating students and English is used no more than 50 percent of the time for instruction. The 20-item (agree/disagree format) survey elicited opinions from 200…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Education
Cazabon, Mary T.; Nicoladis, Elena; Lambert, Wallace E. – 1998
The design and effectiveness of the Amigos program, a two-way Spanish-English bilingual immersion program in Cambridge (Massachusetts) are described. In the program, half the instruction is in English, half in Spanish from kindergarten through eighth grade. Half the students are native Spanish-speakers and half are native English-speakers. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Mathematics Instruction
