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Quality Input and Sustainability in Early Immersion Classrooms: A Case Study of an Experimental School in Macao
Ieong, Sylvia S. L.; Lau, Sin Peng
Frontiers of Education in China, v6 n1 p92-105 Mar 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 Krashen's Input Hypothesis (1982) and Cummins' (2000) framework of instruction for language learning and academic achievement in the formal school context, the authors report their observations by analyzing the data collected from school teachers and participation in classes and by reflecting on their experiences, and suggest improvement that can be made to teachers' linguistic and communicative competence, in terms of quantity and quality of comprehensible input and expected output, and thus the sustainability of English immersion classrooms in a Chinese context.
Descriptors: Experimental Schools, Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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