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Direct linkGuofang Li; Zhen Lin; Fubiao Zhen; Lee Gunderson; Ryan Xuejun Ji – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
This mixed-methods study was designed to examine how different home literacy environments shape gender differences in Chinese-Canadian first graders' (N = 76) bilingual lexical attainment and literacy engagement. Quantitative analyses indicated that girls outperform boys in both Chinese (L1) and English (L2) vocabulary. Gender differences were not…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Literacy, Gender Differences, Asians
Download full textJoy, Rhonda – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The study reported on in this paper investigated the concurrent development of spelling in children learning two languages. The study compared over time and between languages the types of spelling errors made in English as a first language and French as a second. Fortyseven grade one English-speaking children completed an English and French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Spelling, Spelling Instruction
Chapman, Erma – 1982
The extent to which primary school students participating in an English-Ukrainian bilingual program in Manitoba, Canada, were acquiring skills in Ukrainian and English language arts was evaluated for the 1981-1982 school year. This program, which was instituted in 1979, provides half of the instruction in English and half in Ukrainian. Using…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Assessment, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedMuller, L. J.; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1977
This article is an evaluation of a bilingual program for first in five Edmonton public schools. Half of the instruction was conducted in Ukrainian (Ukrainian oral language arts, social studies, music, art, physical education) and half in English (English language arts, mathematics, science). (CFM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Hoge, Robert D.; Khan, Nishat Ali – 1994
In French immersion programs in Canadian public schools, kindergarten is taught all in French, and the proportion of French instruction gradually decreases thereafter until in seventh grade instruction is only 50 percent French. This study examined the psychological adjustment of a group of first-grade children who had been enrolled in an early…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis
McGregor, Cathy, Ed.; Gilmour, Margy – 1985
Successful bilingual education requires good teaching in both languages. For many years northern Canadian educators have wrestled with the difficulties of teaching English with inappropriate commercial materials from the south. These units were developed by the Department of Education using the Language Development Approach, which is seen as the…
Descriptors: Animals, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Science, English
Crawford, Patricia – 1976
This paper presents the results of the evaluation of the North York French immersion program at kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2. The evaluation included the pupils enrolled in the first class established at each grade level, and focussed on the following four questions: (1) Are pupils developing competence in the French language; (2) Is the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, English
