Achieving Second Language Fluency through Immersion Education.

Hornby, Peter A.

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Publication Date: 1980-Apr

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Achieving Second Language Fluency through Immersion Education.

Hornby, Peter A.

Foreign Language Annals, v13 n2 p107-13 Apr 1980

Affirms the advantages to the child of early immersion second language learning programs. The second language proficiency of English-speaking Canadian students who received all instruction in French and English-speaking American children who received all instruction in Spanish surpassed that of students in more traditional language programs. (PMJ)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, French, Immersion Programs, Language Acquisition, Language Fluency, Language of Instruction, Program Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs, Spanish

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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