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Direct linkBuser, Melanie; Melfi, Giuseppe – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The "Filière Bilingue" (FiBi) is a Swiss public two-way immersion program integrating French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone learners (having neither French nor German as an L1) in each class. Located in the bilingual city of Biel/ Bienne, the "diglossic" situation represented by the use of Swiss German and standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, German, Immersion Programs
Henderson, Kathryn I.; Lindahl, Kristen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
An important component of the teacher knowledge base is how aware a teacher is of language, including how it is acquired and best taught. Equally important are teacher beliefs about language or language ideologies. Because this combination of beliefs and awareness guides most pedagogical decisions, our study used explanatory sequential mixed…
Descriptors: Ideology, Language Attitudes, English Language Learners, Metalinguistics
Download full textBritish Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2019
This fact sheet reports on independent schools in British Columbia, including enrollment in independent schools, student composition in independent schools compared to public schools, public funding, and graduation rates. [For the 2018 edition of this fact sheet, see ED586101.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2018
This fact sheet reports on independent schools in British Columbia, including enrollment in independent schools, student composition in independent schools compared to public schools, public funding, and graduation rates.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2017
This fact sheet reports on student enrollment in British Columbia, including enrollment in public schools and independent schools, adult student enrollment, student enrollment in language programs, international student enrollment in public schools, and enrollment of students with special needs.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, Private Schools
Bialystok, Ellen; Peets, Kathleen F.; Moreno, Sylvain – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This study examined metalinguistic awareness in children who were becoming bilingual in an immersion education program. The purpose was to determine at what point in emerging bilingualism the previously reported metalinguistic advantages appear and what types of metalinguistic tasks reveal these developmental differences. Participants were 124…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Metalinguistics, Immersion Programs, Syntax
Lawton, Stephen B. – Education Canada, 1981
The article reports the results of a 1979-80 survey of the kind and number of French language programs in Canadian elementary schools. It notes the development of both traditional and immersion French language programs and the increasing enrollment in French programs, especially in Eastern Canada. (SB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Enrollment Trends, French
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 1999
The materials in this document discuss the Alberta (Canada) public school curriculum for French immersion instruction for 5-year olds in preschool, intended for implementation in September 2000. The first part outlines the rationale and organization of the curriculum model and its five guiding principles. The second part describes the seven…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBousquet, Robert – French Review, 1979
Describes the birth of French immersion programs in the Montreal elementary schools. (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Catholic Schools, Educational Experiments, Elementary Education
Ciriza, Frank – 1987
The Language Immersion Magnet (LIM) program was established in five San Diego (California) city schools to "immerse" students in a second language by providing a strong emphasis on basic academic skills taught in that language. The primary language--English--is introduced later (as late as grade 3). This study attempted to describe the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English, FLES, French
Peer reviewedMaquire, Mary H. – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Describes the development and implementation of a whole language program in Quebec (Canada), a unilingual French province. Focuses on the meaning of educational change at various levels of Quebec's educational system. Presents perspectives and competing ideologies on whole language. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Yang, Yu N.; Li, Yuan H.; Tompkins, Leroy J.; Modarresi, Shahpar – Online Submission, 2005
This summative evaluation of magnet programs employed a quasi-experimental design to investigate whether or not students enrolled in magnet programs gained any achievement advantage over students who were not enrolled in a magnet program. Researchers used Zero-One Linear Programming to draw multiple sets of matched samples from the non-magnet…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Student Characteristics, Summative Evaluation
Wood, Emily – Learning Languages, 2006
The American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) annually presents the Melba Woodruff Award to an exemplary foreign language program in the nation. This year at the ACTFL conference in Baltimore, MD, the Eisenhower International School received this award for its outstanding immersion programs. International student exchanges at the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, International Educational Exchange, Professional Associations, Foreign Students
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 1999
The materials in this document present the results of a study of French second language immersion testing in Alberta (Canada) public schools for grades 1-3 based on the curriculum instituted in 1998. As a result of the study, this collection was developed for grades 1-3 students who need to be taught French as a second language. A separate section…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, French
Clay, Phyllis L. – 1991
A summative evaluation is presented of the 3 years of implementation of the Central Foreign Language Magnet School in Kansas City, Missouri. Two types of instruction are featured: language-only instruction and partial immersion instruction. All students in the program had daily language classes. The language-only students had their core courses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, French
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