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Direct linkBallinger, Susan; Lyster, Roy – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This study examines the Spanish use of students and teachers at a US two-way immersion school. Students and teachers from Grades 1, 3, and 8 (5-6-year-olds, 7-8-years-olds, and 12-13-year-olds, respectively) were observed and interviewed, and students completed questionnaires to determine what factors influenced their language of choice and their…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Oral Language, Language of Instruction, Questionnaires
Bouffard, Laura Annie; Sarkar, Mela – Language Awareness, 2008
Most research on language awareness in a second language (L2) has been carried out with adult learners. This research presents data showing that pedagogical techniques can be devised enabling children as young as 8 to develop metalinguistic awareness of their emerging L2 system. Building on existing work by Canadian researchers, this…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Immersion Programs, Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods
Tschirner, Erwin – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2007
In 2002, the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education Programs (NCATE) established Advanced Low (AL) as the minimal level of oral proficiency for foreign language teacher candidates. However, AL is not a level commonly reached by graduates of foreign language programs. Additional language training focusing on the development of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Saunders, William M.; Foorman, Barbara R.; Carlson, Coleen D. – Elementary School Journal, 2006
The issue of whether to separate English language development (ELD) into a separate instructional block or whether to integrate it with reading/language arts instruction is an unanswered question with theoretical and practical implications. We addressed this question by observing instruction across the year in 85 kindergarten classrooms that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Kindergarten, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Ireland, David – 1987
A study of classroom interaction in Ontario's French immersion programs is summarized. Transcripts of classroom interactions were analyzed for teaching practices that tend to decrease or encourage student speech. Results suggest that the use of language in immersion classrooms is not significantly different from language use in regular classes. It…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language)
Peer reviewedLyster, Roy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Errors in the spoken French of immersion students, reflecting a fossilized interlanguage and language transfer, are attributed to an erroneous assumption underlying immersion instruction: that students acquire the second language in the same way they acquire their native language. An improved syllabus aimed at second-language learners is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Error Patterns, French, Immersion Programs
Wesche, Marjorie; MacFarlane, Alina; Peters, Martine – 1998
This report describes an experimental intensive core French program for grades 5 and 6 at Churchill Alternative School in Ottawa (Canada). The aim was to improve the oral French skills of core French students by providing a period of intensive exposure to French and by increasing the total number of hours in French during one program year from 120…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
