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Direct linkBuser, Melanie; Melfi, Giuseppe – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The "Filière Bilingue" (FiBi) is a Swiss public two-way immersion program integrating French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone learners (having neither French nor German as an L1) in each class. Located in the bilingual city of Biel/ Bienne, the "diglossic" situation represented by the use of Swiss German and standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, German, Immersion Programs
Newell, Kirsten M. W. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Students learning to read in more than one language, or emerging biliterates, are becoming increasingly common in schools. Early screening and identification of reading difficulties may lead to better outcomes for emerging biliterates as well as monolingual English students. Oral reading fluency (ORF) is one tool shown to be both a reliable…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Screening Tests, Emergent Literacy
Bergström, Kirstin; Klatte, Maria; Steinbrink, Claudia; Lachmann, Thomas – Language Learning, 2016
This study investigated first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition in two age-matched groups of 2- to 6-year-old kindergarten children over the course of 2.5 years. The immersion group participated in a partial English immersion program whereas the conventional instruction group received a conventional L2 course (30 minutes per week); the…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Matched Groups
