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Using Immersion to Train Primary School Teachers of French in Australia.
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Chappell, Eric R.; DeCourcy, Michele C. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1993
A study in which students in a teacher training program completed one of their compulsory subjects through immersion in French is reported. Results suggest that the immersion model can achieve success in both language and content areas in the Australian setting and that tertiary-level immersion could be an effective way of training non-English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Language Acquisition
Immersion Principles in Second Language Programs--Research and Policy in Multicultural Australia.
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Clyne, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Focuses on the setting up and evaluation of a primary school German program in Melbourne using modified immersion principles. During the evaluation, this program was compared to a more traditional second-language program and one in which immersion principles operated to a lesser extent. How the evaluation was able to contribute to policy is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Maximising Target Language Use in the Immersion Classroom
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Veque, Catherine – Babel, 2006
This article is the second part of a report on research that examined immersion language teachers' strategies to modify their speech in order to maintain use of the target language. As described in the first part in "Babel," Volume 40, Number 2 (Veque, 2005), this classroom-based research, undertaken at Methodist Ladies College (MLC) in…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Classroom Communication, Immersion Programs, Syntax
Language and Language Education: Working Papers of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia. Volume 2, Number 1.
Language and Language Education: Working Papers of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, 1992
Papers included in this compilation are "Late Hebrew Immersion at Mt. Scopus College Melbourne: Towards Complete Hebrew Fluency for Jewish Day School Students" (S. C. Lorch, T. F. McNamara, E. Eisikovits); "Languages in Schools: Policy and Practice" (Roger A. Peddie); "Models and Sociolinguistic Factors in Some Victorian…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Hebrew