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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)
Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the attitudes of German-speaking pupils towards Sorbian-language education and the problems these pupils indicate as an obstacle to becoming bilingual through educational settings. Based on the research carried out in the Upper Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen/Budyšin (Germany) combining a statistical survey, in-depth…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
Factors, Processes and Outcomes of Early Immersion Education in the Francophone Community in Belgium
Buyl, Aafke; Housen, Alex – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Although Belgium is characterized by a widespread consensus that a functional proficiency in the two major national languages, Dutch and French, as well as in English is desirable, educational provision to achieve such proficiency has long been constrained by an official language policy which mandates that education must be monolingual in Dutch,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Outcomes of Education
Wannagat, Ulrich – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been promoted by the European Union as a means to achieve multilingualism. While in Germany and other European countries the trend to use the L2 as a medium of instruction is increasing, in Hong Kong, however, we see a converse development. Many schools switched from English as a medium of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Language of Instruction, Interaction, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedOberding, Barbara; Magee Onofrietto, Mary H. – Foreign Language Annals, 1982
Describes the second total immersion weekend for students of German sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of the AATG. (EKN)
Descriptors: German, High School Students, Immersion Programs, Language of Instruction
Hawkins, Eric, Ed.; Perren, G. E., Ed. – 1978
The papers in this volume concerning intensive language teaching are grouped into three sections: "Sections bilingues,""Intensive courses within schools," and "Intensive courses at external centres." A preliminary chapter by Eric Hawkins introduces the historical context of intensive language teaching and a concluding…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
