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Smedley, Lea; Gofton, Denise – Babel, 1999
Provides a dialogue that is a series of semi-structured interviews with a language educator who taught French for 4 years before becoming a full-time mother. After 9 years, she became involved in teaching in a French immersion program in Canada. The interviewer is a senior lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Interviews

Tisdell, Mariel – Babel, 1999
Describes the German partial immersion program at St. Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane, Australia. The study confirms that content-based partial immersion teaching produces effective, communicative production in the language of immersion, and confident, competent language speakers even when the learners are quite young. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, German, Immersion Programs