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Download full textMitchell, Stephanie – 1990
The Ainsworth School Spanish Partial Immersion Program (Portland, Oregon) was established in 1987 to provide an elementary foreign language magnet program to children in the district. The program's major goals are bilingual proficiency and increased understanding of the second language culture. During 1989-1990, the program enrolled 205 students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Immersion Programs, Primary Education
Peer reviewedKawakami, Alice J.; Dudoit, Waianuhea – Language Arts, 2000
Describes a Hawaiian language immersion program classroom (a second- and third-grade combination classroom) that acknowledges both the language and culture of students while supporting the development of a culturally grounded community of learners. Notes historical information, discusses ownership and authenticity, and describes aspects of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Maintenance, Folk Culture, Grade 2
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This report describes a program that was designed to end the isolation typically experienced by language minority students in traditional bilingual education and to provide language majority students the opportunity to acquire proficiency in a second Language. The program served 4 classes of approximately 22 students each (85 students) in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, English
Bamford, Kathryn W.; Mizokawa, Donald T. – 1989
A study compared language skill development and cultural attitudes of second-grade children taught in an additive-bilingual program setting with those of second-grade children from a monolingual classroom setting. Subjects were 41 second-grade children participating in a Spanish immersion program and 19 children from a regular second-grade…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
Compartiendo Culturas/Sharing Cultures, a Title VII Two-Way Developmental Bilingual Education Program at the Gary L. Herod Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District (Texas) was designed to end the isolation typically experienced by language minority students in traditional bilingual education and to provide language majority…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cultural Awareness, Family Programs, Hispanic Americans
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This report presents an evaluation of a two-way bilingual program in English and Spanish at the Cunningham Elementary School (Texas). The program was designed to extend and expand educational reform by shifting the instructional program at the school over the 5-year time span from a transitional bilingual program to a two-way bilingual, or dual…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Planning, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
