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Ko-Yin Sung – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book responds to the expansion of dual language immersion (DLI) programs into secondary contexts, examining the effectiveness of these programs and highlighting areas for improvement in the curriculum. Focusing on Mandarin Chinese DLI in Utah secondary schools, it presents the views of teachers, parents and students on the newly implemented…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Mandarin Chinese, Secondary Schools, Teacher Attitudes
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Lozano, Leticia I. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2014
It is essential for teachers to provide a setting where student interaction is fostered as a mediational tool for learning, thus expediting the natural transfer of language and knowledge among students (Cummins, 1979). Doing so provides students a way of learning in an additive environment (Soltero, 2004). Could such a classroom have the potential…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Bilingual Education, Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners
Kupetz, Rita, Ed.; Becker, Carmen, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2014
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an established approach to support multilingualism in Europe by teaching various school subjects in an additional language. The practices used, however, vary considerably. Our book considers this diversity by looking at CLIL scenarios, defined as learning environments supporting content learning,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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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
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 2001
This teacher's guide, intended for the instruction of both French as a first language and French as a second language in an immersion setting, provides a host of strategies for teaching interactive oral presentation skills in the classroom (Grades 1 through 7). Section 1 is designed to bring the teacher's awareness to the training procedure,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, French, Grade 7
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Lyster, Roy; Ranta, Leila – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Examined corrective feedback and learner response to feedback in four primary level immersion classes. Transcripts of classroom interactions from subject-matter and French language arts lessons were analyzed using a model comprising the various moves in an error treatment sequence. Findings reveal a strong tendency for teachers to use recasts…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Prayaga, Lakshmi; Rasmussen, Karen L. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Computer games are no longer just for entertainment; they have also become a useful instructional strategy for acquiring knowledge. When games are used for purposes other than strict entertainment they become serious games. The goal of serious games is to enable the player to learn a task, master a strategy or develop a skill. Serious games can be…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
Arnau, Joaquim – 1989
A study analyzed and compared the classroom interactional strategies of two teachers of Catalan immersion classes and one teacher of Spanish as a native language in Spain at the kindergarten level. The theoretical framework guiding the study is based on analysis of the native-speaker/non-native-speaker distinction. Two comparisons were made: (1)…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis