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The Challenge of Medium of Instruction: A View from Maldivian Schools
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Mohamed, Naashia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
In the era of globalisation, language-in-education policies continue to present challenges as policy-makers across the globe aim to balance the emphasis given to students' first language and the pressing need for students to be proficient in English as the global "lingua franca" [Hanna, P. (2011). Gaining global perspective: Educational…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Civil Rights, Cognitive Development, Affective Behavior
Immersion Education: Practices, Policies, Possibilities. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Tedick, Diane J.; Christian, Donna; Fortune, Tara Williams – Multilingual Matters, 2011
This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick's 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new…
Descriptors: Program Design, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Program Implementation
Late Immersion and Language of Instruction in Hong Kong High Schools: Achievement Growth in Language and Nonlanguage Subjects.
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Hau, Kit-Tai; Kong, Chit-Kwong – Harvard Educational Review, 2000
For Hong Kong high school students (n=12,784), late immersion in English as the language of instruction had large negative effects on science, geography, and history achievement. English immersion had small positive effects on English and Chinese achievement. Effects of language of instruction did not vary substantially over the first 3 years of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chinese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
The Paradox of Immersion in a Second Language.
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Ho, Kwok K. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1985
Seventy-four grade 8 pupils in Hong Kong were randomly assigned to an experimental class, with English as the language of instruction, and to a control class, with Chinese as the language of instruction. Pupils in the immersion program were not hindered in academic achievement but did not improve second-language proficiency. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Chinese, Comparative Analysis
Late Immersion and Language of Instruction (English vs. Chinese) in Hong Kong High Schools: Achievement Growth in Language and Nonlanguage Subjects.
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Hau, Kit-Tai; Marsh, Herbert W.; Kong, Chit-Kwong; Poon, Andrew Chung-Shing – 2000
This study examines how instruction in the first language (L1), Chinese, and in the second language (L2), English, affects a large sample of students' academic achievement in L1, L2, and content, nonlanguage school subjects, including mathematics, science, geography, and history, in their first 3 years of high school. For all four content area…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Discovering Successful Second Language Teaching Strategies and Practices: From Programme Evaluation to Classroom Experimentation and A Response.
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Swain, Merrill; Johnson, Robert Keith – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Analyzes how Canadian immersion education has developed from its origins to the present in terms of a cycle guided by the interplay between theory and classroom practice of second- language acquisition. Johnson responds by questioning the extent to which bilingual education theory and practices are universal or context specific. (38 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Correction