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Direct linkPfenninger, Simone E. – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study reveals hitherto overlooked effects of age of onset (AO) in immersive school contexts, using multiple measures over time so as to focus on fluctuations and trends in individual data. The second language (L2) English development was studied in 91 children who received 50-50 content and language integrated learning (CLIL) instruction in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, English (Second Language)
Fortune, Tara W.; Tedick, Diane J. – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This cross-sectional study used assessments developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics to examine the oral proficiency of 218 K-8 English-proficient students in 4 Spanish immersion programs. Following a comprehensive review of assessment results for English-proficient immersion learners, the article reports findings from statistical analyses.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Turnbull, Miles; Cormier, Marianne; Bourque, Jimmy – Modern Language Journal, 2011
This article reports analysis of data collected from a quasi-experimental study in 2 Canadian late French immersion science classes. We examine if, how, and when the first language (L1) is used when students in the first years of their second language learning talk about complex science concepts. We compare differences in groups following a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, French, Immersion Programs
Golonka, Ewa M. – Modern Language Journal, 2006
The empirical study reported here investigated predictors of oral proficiency gain to the Advanced level resulting from immersion study abroad. The data consisted of 22 preimmersion Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) of American students who participated in semester immersion programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and received a score of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Oral Language, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
Peer reviewedLyster, Roy – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Describes weaknesses in the sociolinguistic competence of second-language (L2) learners as documented by research in immersion contexts. The article discusses findings with reference to adolescent native speakers' use of question forms, conditionals, and second-person pronouns across two levels of formality in written and oral productions. (48…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, French, High School Students
Academic Achievement through Japanese, Spanish, or French: The First Two Years of Partial Immersion.
Peer reviewedThomas, Wayne P.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1993
Compared 719 first-, second-, third-grade students enrolled in partial-immersion (PI) programs in Japanese, Spanish, or French to 3 comparison groups. Outcome measures used were a mathematics test, Metropolitan Achievement Test in Reading, and Student Oral Proficiency Rating. PI students scored at least as well as, and to some extent better than,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, French
