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Multilingual Literacies and Third Script Acquisition: Young Chinese Children in French Immersion in Vancouver, Canada
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Moore, Daniele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
This contribution reports on a qualitative study conducted with 14 young Chinese children enrolled in French immersion in Canada, to explore their multilingual practices, and their simultaneous acquisition of three writing systems. Drawings and in-depth interviews constituted creative and age appropriate narratives to understand children's…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Migration, French
Collaboration and Co-Construction of Knowledge during Language Awareness Activities in Canadian Elementary School
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Dagenais, Diane; Walsh, Nathalie; Armand, Francoise; Maraillet, Erica – Language Awareness, 2008
Drawing on Language Awareness (LA) approaches developed for francophone classrooms and a sociocultural theoretical perspective on language and learning that posits the genesis of new knowledge construction is situated in social interactions and shaped by socio-historical context, we conducted a small-scale case study of the implementation of LA…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Official Languages, Focus Groups, Elementary Schools
A Longitudinal Evaluation of an Early Immersion Program in British Columbia.
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Shapson, S. M.; Day, E. M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1982
Presents study of two groups of students in an early French immersion program in British Columbia. In comparison to peers in regular English program, immersion students performed at similar level in mathematics and attained equivalence in English language skills soon after English language arts were introduced into curriculum. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Elementary Education, English
Classroom Language Experiences of Trilingual Children in French Immersion.
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Dagenais, Diane; Day, Elaine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Reports the case studies of three trilingual elementary school children in separate Vancouver (British Columbia) early French immersion classes, focusing on themes emerging from analysis related to the children's literacy practices and contexts for language learning, and the teachers' perceptions of these students and representations of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Programs in Canada.
Shapson, Stan M.; Day, Elaine M. – 1983
A synthesis of two evaluation studies is presented. The first study describes an early immersion school-based program in the province of British Columbia conducted on a longitudinal basis from kindergarten to grade 7, and sponsored by parents to extend their children's school-based bilingual experience. The longitudinal study of the early…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Exchange, Educational Research
Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches in Language Teaching in French Immersion: An Experimental Study.
Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – 1990
An experiment evaluated the impact of an integrated formal, analytic, and functional communicative approach to second language teaching in French immersion on French language proficiency. The impetus for the study arises from research indicating that immersion children show persistent weaknesses in their grammatical skills despite the fluent,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries