Immersion Education
Title | Immersion Education PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Keith Johnson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1997-07-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780521586559 |
Within bilingual education, more and more programs are adopting the option of immersion education, in which a second language is used as the medium of instruction. This volume illustrates the implementation immersion education in North America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, showing its use in programs ranging from preprimary to tertiary level and demonstrating how it can function in foreign language teaching, for teaching a minority language to members of the language majority, for reviving or supporting languages at risk of extinction, and for helping learners acquire a language needed for wider communication or career advancement. A final section reviews lessons learned from experiences with immersion and explores new directions the approach is taking. This text will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, and others involved in bilingual education.
Struggling Learners & Language Immersion Education
Title | Struggling Learners & Language Immersion Education PDF eBook |
Author | Tara Williams Fortune |
Publisher | Ctr for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780984399604 |
This handbook provides dual language and immersion educators with rich information and practical resources that address common concerns with children who struggle with language, literacy and learning. In response to practitioners most pressing questions this book offers case narratives that recount lived experiences with struggling learners from a range of educational specialists, administrators and teachers; background information and research summaries that provide important information about the existing knowledge base on this topic; discussion of issues as they relate to language minority and language majority learners; and guiding principles to inform program policies and practices. Additionally, the handbook includes reference materials and useful web resources to assist educators in meeting the needs of a wide variety of language and learning challenges."
Immersion Education
Title | Immersion Education PDF eBook |
Author | Diane J. Tedick |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011-07-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 184769473X |
This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick’s 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education. Questions explored include: What possibilities for program design exist in charter programs for both two-way and indigenous models? How do studies on learner outcomes lead to possibilities for improvements in program implementation? How do existing policies and practices affect struggling immersion learners and what possibilities can be imagined to better serve such learners? In addressing such questions, the volume invites readers to consider the possibilities of immersion education to enrich the language development and educational achievement of future generations of learners.
Immersion Education
Title | Immersion Education PDF eBook |
Author | Diane J. Tedick |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1847694020 |
This volume showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous immersion programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education to increase programmatic impact and promote higher levels of language proficiency and literacy among learners.
Language and Identity in a Dual Immersion School
Title | Language and Identity in a Dual Immersion School PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Potowski |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1853599433 |
This book describes the experiences of a group of students in Chicago, Illinois, who are attending one of the first Spanish-English dual immersion schools in the United States. The author follows the group during two school years, documenting their Spanish use and proficiency, as well as how their two languages intersect with the ongoing production of their identities.
Immersion Education in the Early Years
Title | Immersion Education in the Early Years PDF eBook |
Author | Tina Hickey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2017-10-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1317294254 |
Worldwide, more parents are opting for immersion pre-schooling for their children in order to benefit from its linguistic, educational, and cultural benefits. This immersion can be either bilingual or monolingual, aimed at early second language learning, or at language maintenance – offering minority language children mother-tongue support and enrichment. This book examines some of the key issues and policy concerns relating to immersion education in the early years. The term itself can be difficult in some political contexts, as can the differing outcomes noted by studies comparing monolingual programmes, and bilingual programmes for minority language children. The importance of training in immersion methodology for educators is discussed, as is the need to adapt preschool pedagogical practices to the immersion context, in order to provide optimal input for young language learners. One of the most pressing discussions surrounds differentiated provision – ensuring that the varying needs of children with language impairment, typical second language learners, and mother-tongue speakers with significant socioeconomic or linguistic disadvantages are all met. Overall, the book explores the challenges currently facing the sector, particularly with regard to training and professional development for practitioners, and the provision of appropriate materials in less widely used languages. Given the documented benefit of high quality immersion pre-schooling, this book fulfils an urgent need to increase the recognition of the sector. This book was published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
Pathways to Multilingualism
Title | Pathways to Multilingualism PDF eBook |
Author | Tara Williams Fortune |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847690351 |
Aimed at facilitating cross-context dialogue & knowledge exchange, this volume brings together an international roster of scholars to offer theoretical perspectices, research reviews & empirical studies on teaching, learning & language development in immersion education.