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Direct linkQiang, Haiyan; Siegel, Linda S. – International Education, 2012
This article presents an overview of replicating the French immersion model used in Canada to English immersion programs in China. It provides the Chinese context of this program highlighting the importance of English education and the defect of traditional English teaching and learning. The paper explains the borrowable features of the French…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
Trube, Mary Barbara – International Education, 2012
This paper examines the content-language integrated (CLI) second language (L2) education offered by the CCUEI Research Collaborative in China. It explores how CCUEI-developed curriculum reflects the theoretical foundations of an immersion experiment and how the research-based theoretical foundations of CLI L2 have been applied in practice. It…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Zhang, Lei; Yan, Rong – International Education, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of an early partial immersion program as compared to a non-immersion program on English sociopragmatic awareness among Chinese kindergarten children six years of age. Of the 128 children who participated in the experiment involving the use of politeness perception tasks, half received three years…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Immersion Programs, Speech Acts, Comparative Analysis
Pei, Miao – International Education, 2012
This paper investigates the discoursal strategies of four teachers in providing feedback to student responses in English classrooms in Xi'an, People's Republic of China. The findings indicate that the teachers provide positive feedback for students English learning in various ways, including using the most common strategies such as accepting,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Speech Communication
Li, Miao; Cheng, Liying; Kirby, John R. – International Education, 2012
This study investigates the relationship between English listening comprehension and English and Chinese phonological awareness (PA), and the cross-linguistic transfer of PA in 48 Grade 2 and 47 Grade 4 Chinese English-immersion students. The results of the study indicate a correlation between English PA and English listening comprehension.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Phonological Awareness, Metalinguistics, Listening Comprehension
Kong, Stella; Hoare, Philip – International Education, 2012
This paper investigates the development of academic language proficiency through immersion in middle school programmes in Hong Kong and Xi'an. The study reveals that in both contexts students have exposure to complex academic language through teacher talk and textbooks; however, there is not sufficient support for students' academic language use…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Middle School Students
Knell, Ellen; Chi, Yanping – International Education, 2012
Early English immersion in China has been studied from many angles, but no research to date has investigated affective variables, which may have a profound relevance to successful English acquisition. The present study examines the roles of motivation, attitudes towards learning English, willingness to communicate, perceived competence, language…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
