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Barkman, L. Bruce – McGill Journal of Education, 1969
Selected for discussion in this paper are some investigations which have results relevant to second-language teaching, insofar as they might affect the learners, the teachers, and the materials used. These psychologically oriented studies of bilingual comunities deal with (1) bilingualism and intelligence, (2) language aptitude, (3) motivation,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)

Goldstein, Tara – Bilingual Research Journal, 1999
An ethnographic case study involves a Canadian-born, Chinese Canadian high school student and her art teacher in a Toronto high school receiving many immigrants from Hong Kong. The student's prize-winning art work is analyzed as a pedagogical project that promoted positive development of self-identities, challenged anti-immigrant attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Art Teachers, Bilingual Students, Foreign Countries
Clement, Richard; Baker, Susan C.; Josephson, Gordon; Noels, Kimberly A. – Human Communication Research, 2005
Research on media effects has documented the media's influence on beliefs and behavior while cross-cultural psychology has documented the effects of the language used in communication on identification with the ingroup and the outgroup. Media usage in the outgroup language should, therefore, affect identification patterns. This research…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Minority Groups, Linguistics, Acculturation
Bountrogianni, Marie – 1984
In order to gain a better understanding of metaphor comprehension in different cultural contexts, this study compared the performances of two groups of children from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds but with common schooling experiences on two tests of metaphor: the Metaphor Triads Task (MTT) and the Proverbs Test. The Ravens Colored…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Lamoureux, Phil; Jones, James – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1977
The implementation of the Federal-Provincial Program of Cooperation for Bilingualism in Education, in 1970, in Canada, has resulted in a number of myths regarding the amount and the utilization of monies available through the program. The intent of this document is to provide information about the facets of this program that impinge on the area of…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism

Maguire, Mary – Comparative Education Review, 1994
Examines the sociocultural-linguistic processes involved in writing stories in English and French for 2 bilingual children, aged 10 and 11, in Quebec. Points out differences between the children in their views of play, schooling, and story creation. Proposes a unity of process across both languages that is mirrored in the writing of first- and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Cultural Context
Boctor, Sonia; Rowell, Patricia M. – Primary Science Review, 2004
Learning science in a meaningful way involves more than doing a series of activities directed towards anticipated outcomes. Learning science entails teacher and children talking together as "co-constructors" of knowledge (Barnes, 1976). Karen Gallas (1995) has described her long-term observations of the kinds of talk which contribute to…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science
Morgan, G. A. V. – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
In response to O. Weininger's article, programs in various countries are cited in defense of the efficacy of early language immersion. The importance of flexibility is stressed, as is need to examine bilingual immersion in the light of educational, social, linguistic, and "political" goals, as well as psychological theory. (PP)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
Weininger, O. – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
The importance of fully exploring the values and limitations of early language immersion programs is reiterated. The need to take children's class advantages into account in judging the effectiveness of such programs is emphasized. (PP)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Family School Relationship
McLean, Leslie D.; And Others – 1983
Beginning core-French students who had contact with part-time French monitors and students who did not were compared in five Canadian provinces in 1979-1980 as part of an evaluation of the Second Language Monitor Program. Twenty-eight schools and 56 classes were studied in Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, along with 5 schools…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES
Semeniuk, Miriam C. – 2001
This study used the think-aloud methodology on six Canadian fourth graders to promote the use of reading strategies in their first and second languages as part of a bilingual process-based remedial reading program. Students' English and French reading levels were established at baseline and reexamined at the end of the intervention. Pre- and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, French
Foster, Rosemary – 1997
A 1992 Canadian study and 1994 followup investigated the high school experience of six Anglophone French immersion students who participated in a pilot program in French immersion in elementary and junior high school and continued immersion study in high school. Data were gathered during the students' tenth grade, primarily in semi-structured…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism

Beniak, Edouard – 1984
Three studies are presented, each of which is a comparison of the acquisition of an aspect of the French verb system by three groups of speakers. The speakers are: young Anglophones learning French as a second language in an early French immersion program in Montreal; young monolingual Francophones attending elementary French language schools in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Weininger, O. – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
Two major questions are discussed concerning early language immersion: (1) Is it necessarily the best way to acquire a second language permanently and naturally? and (2) Does it provide a genuinely enriching experience for a young child? The author urges caution in interpreting research and consideration of other paths to biculturalism. (PP)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Gray, Vicky A. – 1985
The academic achievement in French of two cohorts of grade 9 students of a public school early immersion program in New Brunswick, which has total French-language instruction through grade 4 and includes all students in the program except transfers was compared to that of a group of native French-speaking students at a nearby French-language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries