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Lee, Kathleen; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study investigated an emergent interaction between word reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge in the prediction of reading comprehension among French immersion students in Grades 2 and 3. A group of 66 students were tested on measures of phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, word reading accuracy, vocabulary, word reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Vocabulary Development, Prediction, Reading Comprehension
Guzman-Orth, Danielle A.; Lopez, Alexis A.; Tolentino, Florencia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The purpose of this study was to create and prototype a dual language assessment task that allows young English learners to use their entire cadre of linguistic resources (language and non-verbal resources) to obtain information about their emergent language abilities. We developed a dual language assessment task in which students described a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English Language Learners, Language Tests, Task Analysis
Archambault, Catherine; Mercer, Sterett H.; Cheng, Michèle P.; Saqui, Sonja – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2019
Research on the development of reading skills in bilingual students suggests that reading skills develop interdependently across languages. The current study examined the effects of a French reading fluency intervention on the French and English reading skills of three Grade 3 students attending a French immersion program using a concurrent…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Immersion Programs, French, English (Second Language)
Ó Duibhir, Pádraig; Ní Thuairisg, Laoise – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a long history of early Irish language learning in Ireland as a result of Government policy to promote greater use of Irish. All children learn Irish in school from age 4-18 years. The majority learn Irish as a subject, typically for 30-40 minutes per day, and the levels of competence achieved are mostly disappointing. Approximately…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance
Xiang, Sophia – LEARNing Landscapes, 2019
Written from the perspective of a Grade 5/6 French Immersion teacher, this paper examines the role of music, poetry, and the visual arts in enhancing learner identity, in the context of the elementary school classroom. It begins with a focus on artistic metaphors that represent cultural and linguistic hyphenation. It then addresses practical…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, French, Immersion Programs, Music
Schauer, Gila A. – English Language Education, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers' statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Childrens Literature, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
EdCan Network, 2019
This brief report presents six trends in Canadian education for 2018-2019. Each trend is presented with a list of facts and relating report to support the trend. The six trends are: (1) Provinces and territories are conducting whole system reviews and reforms to their education systems; (2) Minority language revitalization in education has become…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Oliveira, Gabrielle; Chang-Bacon, Chris K.; Cho, Eunhye; Baez-Cruz, Maria – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
As the popularity of two-way immersion (TWI) programs increases across the U.S., recent scholarship has drawn attention to inequities in who benefits from these programs and how they are implemented. These findings have drawn the field's attention to the instrumental part played by particular stakeholders in TWI program implementation. While this…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Portuguese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Saminathan, Catherine; Yin, Lim Pei; Mustafa, Zarina; Abdullah, Amelia – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
The Highly Immersive Programme (HIP) was introduced into the Malaysian education scenario with the aims of involving and immersing students in an English environment. Through HIP, it is hoped that students will have better opportunity and platform to use the language confidently, thus improving their English proficiency. HIP is aimed to foster…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ruiz-Funes, Marcela T. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This study reports on a small-scale, longitudinal investigation on L2 Spanish oral development by English-home language (EHL) learners in an English/Spanish Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in rural, eastern United States. It examined EHL learners' oral ability in L2 Spanish based on longitudinal assessment data from Kindergarten, Grade 2, and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Spanish, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Markey, Michael – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
We focus here on the obstacles students face when learning to read in their second language, specifically in contexts where the second language is taught as a school subject or used as a medium of instruction (immersion). Qualitative studies in these areas have highlighted strategy deployment and approaches to constructing meaning as key variables…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Reading Tests, Barriers, Second Language Learning
Hopkins, Karen – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2017
On Mackworth Island, not far from Portland, the Mackworth Island Preschool Program at the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing/Governor Baxter School for the Deaf (MECDHH/GBSD) helps deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing children flourish. At MECDHH/GBSD, instructors immerse students, 3-5 years old, in American Sign Language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Immersion Programs
Wang, Ping – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This article starts with definitions of bilingualism with a focus on the analysis of bilingual competence. Then the aims and types of bilingual education in developing bilingual competence are introduced with focus on analyses of immersion and content-based instruction. Subsequently, the contextual settings of the study are briefly presented.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Miano, Alice A.; Bernhardt, Elizabeth B.; Brates, Vivian – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
This article probes the extent to which postsecondary Spanish learners can substantively increase their knowledge of Spanish over a two-week period within a context of language and content instruction for four hours per day. The article considers the relationship of an immersion experience to upper-level literature and culture classes. Insights…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Immersion Programs, Spanish, Service Learning
Starr, Rebecca Lurie – Multilingual Matters, 2016
This book investigates the acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in the early elementary school years of a Mandarin-English two-way immersion program in the United States. Using ethnographic observation and quantitative analysis of data, the author explores how input from teachers and classmates shapes students' language acquisition. The book…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Language Acquisition, Elementary School Students