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Kondo-Brown, Kimi, Ed.; Saito-Abbott, Yoshiko, Ed.; Satsutani, Shingo, Ed.; Tsutsui, Michio, Ed.; Wehmeyer, Ann, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2013
This volume is a collection of selected refereed papers presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Annual Spring Conference held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in March of 2011. It not only covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but also…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
Swain, Merrill; Lapkin, Sharon – 1982
A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late partial French immersion. The programs all serve an English speaking students population, devote at least one half of each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism
Syrja, Rachel Carrillo – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measures. These tools have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Success
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Hickey, Tina – 1997
A study addressed educational and psychological issues raised by the phenomenal growth of Irish-medium pre-schools ("naionrai"). Data were gathered in surveys of almost 2,000 parents, over 170 teachers and advisors, and 225 children in 25 Irish-medium pre-schools in both "Gaeltacht" (Irish-speaking districts) and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Trends, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
McLaughlin, Barry – 1978
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the literature on second language acquisition in childhood, viewed in terms of contemporary process models. After a general introduction on bilingualism in society, six major topics are considered: first-language acquistion, language acquisition and learning in childhood and adulthood, simultaneous…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)