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Kateryn Rannu; Aleksandra Ljalikova; Katrin Poom-Valickis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite Estonia being ranked among the highest performing nations in the world-wide testing of students, these encouraging results are somewhat overshadowed by the challenge to overcome the divided school system with different languages of learning that impacts crucially on students' social, academic and professional paths. The study examines…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Li, Jennifer J.; Steele, Jennifer L.; Slater, Robert; Bacon, Michael; Miller, Trey – RAND Corporation, 2016
Dual-language immersion programs--in which students learn core subjects (language arts, math, science, and social studies) in both English and a "partner" language--have been gaining in popularity across the United States. Such programs may use a "two-way model," in which roughly half the students are native speakers of the…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Program Implementation, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Li, Jennifer; Steele, Jennifer; Slater, Robert; Bacon, Michael; Miller, Trey – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
Many educators and policy makers look to two-way dual language immersion as one of the most promising options to close achievement gaps for English learners. However, the programs' effectiveness depends on the quality of their implementation. This article reports on a large-scale study of the implementation of dual language immersion across a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Immersion Programs, Program Implementation, Language Usage
Li, Jennifer; Steele, Jennifer; Slater, Robert; Bacon, Michael; Miller, Trey – Grantee Submission, 2016
Many educators and policymakers look to two-way dual language immersion as one of the most promising options to close achievement gaps for English learners. However, the programs' effectiveness depends on the quality of their implementation. This article reports on a large-scale study of the implementation of dual language immersion across a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Immersion Programs, School Districts, Guidelines
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Tarnopolsky, Oleg B.; Goodman, Bridget A. – Language and Education, 2014
Using an ecology of language framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at a private university in eastern Ukraine allows for the use of Ukrainian, the state language, or Russian, the predominantly spoken language, in large cities in eastern Ukraine. Uses of English and Russian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language of Instruction, Russian
Palmberg, Rolf – 1983
Three experiments from the late 1970s concerning second language communication strategies are studied for evidence supporting their classification as either avoidance or achievement strategies. The experiments had as subjects native English-speaking children in a French immersion program, adult second language learners of English who were native…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Anxiety, Children, Classification