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Ikeda, Risa – TESL-EJ, 2020
Study abroad destinations for Japanese students, particularly those aiming to improve their English language skills, tend to focus on the "Inner Circle" (Kachru, 1992) of English-speaking countries. However, over the last two decades, Korean and Japanese-owned English language schools in the Philippines started to appear, leading to over…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Self Concept, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Vega, Desireé; Plotts, Cynthia – School Psychology International, 2020
This exploratory study investigated the experiences of seven bilingual school psychology graduate students' participation in a two-week cultural immersion experience at the Texas-Mexico border. Findings revealed five significant themes related to their experience: (1) pushed out of comfort zone, (2) bonding with peers, (3) language, culture, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Bilingualism, Peer Relationship, Graduate Students
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Rodríguez-Izquierdo, Rosa M.; Darmody, Merike – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
Over the last decades, migration across Europe has continued to increase. Consequently, offering educational support for migrant students in the schools of host countries has been an extensively debated issue across Europe and further afield, especially in countries with a history of immigration. However, less is known about how education systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrants, Refugees, Language Planning
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Acheampong, Cassandra – Adult Learning, 2018
Happenstance learning theory posits that unexpected events can have lasting positive impacts on individual learning and development. In this reflection, a U.S. doctoral student shares how an unexpected opportunity occurred to participate in a cultural immersion experience in Ghana, West Africa. Along with learning outcomes that resulted,…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Learning Theories, Study Abroad, Immersion Programs
Bermudez, Caroline – Century Foundation, 2018
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School is considered to be the elder statesman among dual-language public charter elementary schools in Washington, D.C. It is old by charter school standards: Stokes was founded in 1998, well before the charter school boom of the 2000s, with just thirty-five students. It now serves 485…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Social Justice
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Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.; Marshall, Kelle L. – L2 Journal, 2020
French immersion (FI), one of the hallmarks of French as a Second Language education in Canada and mandated in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially English/French bilingual province, is often the target of language ideological debates surrounding its purposes and expected outcomes. Yet, notably absent in FI scholarship has been a focus on the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, French, Immersion Programs, Language Attitudes
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Kong, Kaishan; Shang, Mohan – Learning Languages, 2020
The K-12 population learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) has been increasing rapidly within recent years in the United States. Ruan, Zhang, and Leung (2015) state that summer programs are one of the most recognized forms of Chinese learning, cultivating immersion language environments in the United States. As CFL programs expand, there is…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Reflective Teaching, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Sung, Ko-Yin – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
This study invited parents in 21 one-way Mandarin Chinese dual immersion programs in Utah to respond to a survey on-line. Five hundred and eighty parents participated in this study. The objectives of the survey study were to learn the parents' reasons for enrollment, their program satisfaction, and whether there was a group difference based on the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Parent Surveys, Ethnicity
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Resnik, Julia – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Since the 1980s, education in Canada has been through a process that led to school choice, targeting the improvement of students' performance through school competition. These policies fostering an education quasi-market became an ideal framework for the expansion of IB schools. Since the Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate (IBDP)…
Descriptors: Competition, Advanced Placement Programs, School Districts, International Education
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Pellerin, Martine – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The paper examines how the game Minecraft can be used as a new digital learning environment in the context of second language teaching and learning. It explores how the concepts of digital space and digital place within the new 3D digital environment can contribute to reshaping the language learners' experience and promote greater engagement in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, French
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Ciriza, María del Puy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
In this article, I analyse the programme and pedagogy of "Karmelo Ikastola," a Basque immersion school that promotes parental involvement and language use within the family. The "Karmelo" case is noteworthy due to its success at effectively promoting the use of Basque among students inside and outside the school along with its…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Participation, Immersion Programs, Native Speakers
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Rowan-Kenyon, Heather T.; Knight, Sarah; McCready, Adam – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2019
The authors examine components of pre-trip preparation that influence student trip experiences and learning related to short-term immersion programs. With the use of a transformative learning framework and a multisite longitudinal case study, key components emerged as essential in preparing students for these experiences: community building,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Fund Raising, Social Justice, Leadership Training
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro – Online Submission, 2019
The following work consists of a comparative research of two of the most outstanding immersion programs for foreign languages (Russian/English) that Dominican college students have ever undergone. The first one, happened decades ago in the cold distant Union of Soviet Socialist Republic where thousands of our students were sent as scholarship's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Russian
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Paulina Yourupi-Sandy; Joyminda George – Region 18 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education (FSM NDOE) requested support from the Region 18 Comprehensive Center (R18CC) to build National and State-level knowledge of effective practices in bilingual and multilingual education. This scan offers an overview of evidence-based practices for implementing and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Effectiveness
Rihan Abuhamdan – Online Submission, 2024
The academic success and language proficiency in Arabic of bilingual Arabic learners (BAL) in immersion programs have been limited by a lack of effective policies and practices that address the Arabic population's inclusive and equitable educational environment. This qualitative case study aims to provide insight into how academic leaders can…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Arabic, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs
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