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Kersten, Kristin; Fischer, Uta; Burmeister, Petra; Lommel, Annette; Schelletter, Christina; Steinlen, Anja K.; Thomas, Shannon – Online Submission, 2010
Immersion programmes in primary schools have gained more and more recognition over the last decades. Every new immersion school faces the problem of providing a concept which will be put into practise with the help of personnel who have normally not been trained specifically for this task. The purpose of this guide is to answer frequently asked…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Elementary Education, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Saunders, Lesley – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
This paper is a reflection on practice. It begins by briefly describing an evaluation of an externally-funded education programme in Kosovo (a new country in south-east Europe). The programme was managed by Save the Children in Kosovo and aimed to develop and promote models of inclusive education through three strands of activity. The first of…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Educational Needs, Evaluators, Inclusive Schools
Oregon Department of Education, 2013
This guide is designed as a reference for District and School personnel working with English learners (ELs). The content of the guide represents a compilation of information, examples, and resources. This guide is a living document and subject to frequent updates. It is recommended to review the document online rather than printing a hard copy.
Descriptors: Program Guides, English Language Learners, Educational Objectives, Vocabulary
Online Submission, 2014
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Dilans, Gatis – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
What makes people, in shifting power positions of a post-independence period, plan on disusing an already known L2 or learn a new L2? What are the reasons for such shifts and what outcomes can, therefore, be predicted for the future of societal bilingualism surviving alongside ongoing efforts at monolingual unification in a newly independent…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Speech Communication, Bilingual Education, Monolingualism
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Paciotto, Carla – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The Italian-Slovenian border represents a dynamic vantage point from which to observe how cultural and linguistic contact takes place and how minority groups have created educational strategies to preserve their cultural and linguistic diversity while striving for respectful coexistence with the dominant society. Slovene-medium schools have been…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Bilingual Schools
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Toloa, Meaola; McNaughton, Stuart; Lai, Mei – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
This article addresses an area of international concern, the need to enhance the development in reading comprehension for English Language Learners. We report results of an intervention to raise achievement in English (L2) in Samoan bilingual classrooms for 9-13 year old Samoan children. The general aim was to examine patterns of biliteracy and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Bilingual Education, Oral Language
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Kim, Young-Suk – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined (1) the potential influence of oral language characteristics of two languages that bilingual children acquire on their PA and (2) the relationship of PA in L1 with PA and literacy skills in L2, using data from Korean-English bilingual children. Thirty three Korean-English bilingual children, composed of two subsamples from two…
Descriptors: Phonology, Oral Language, Sight Vocabulary, Phonological Awareness
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Achugar, Mariana – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2009
This article explores the construction of a bilingual professional identity in a bilingual creative-writing graduate program in southwest Texas by analyzing a classroom event and the participants' interpretation of it. In bilingual classrooms the resources available to construct professional identities include a large repertoire of linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Creative Writing, Power Structure
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Olneck, Michael R. – American Journal of Education, 2009
In this article, I argue that there has been a basic continuity between what immigrants historically have sought from American schools and what contemporary immigrants seek. In neither case have immigrants sought to utilize the schools to "reproduce" or to "preserve" cultures separate from the American mainstream. Rather, immigrants have…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Role of Education, Acculturation, Educational Needs
Lam, Tony C. M.; Gamel, Nona N. – 1987
This document is designed to be used with the "Users' Guide". It is written for practitioners who are interested in meeting the federal regulations governing the evaluation of Title VII projects but do not have evaluation training. Six types of bilingual projects are required to fulfill the evaluation requirements specified in the June…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Educational Policy
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Beillard, Jean-Michel – Higher Education in Europe, 2000
Describes the University of Ottawa, a French and English bilingual university. Discusses its history, present functioning, bilingual approach, funding, and positive and negative aspects. (EV)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Schools, Foreign Countries
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Tarasawa, Beth – Bilingual Research Journal, 2008
As the increasing number of Latino and Asian immigrants to the Atlanta area has escalated tensions over occupational, residential, and educational resources, research has begun to examine opposition to bilingual education as an extension of anti-immigrant prejudice and as a measure of perceived threat. This study uses content analysis to compare…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, News Reporting, Content Analysis, Asian Americans
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Sanchez, Patricia; Ek, Lucila D. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2008
This article draws from a larger study based in South Texas that examines the professional and personal narratives of 63 Latina/o preservice educators preparing to teach in bilingual classrooms. Using qualitative methods, we collected data where participants' voices and opinions regarding U.S. immigration issues were documented during classroom…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Bilingual Education, Politics
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Parkes, Jay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
A survey of 724 families of dual language enrichment students in the South-west USA explored what kinds of families had chosen dual language education for their children and why. Of those parents who chose dual language for their children, 45.4% speak primarily English with their child, while 54.6% speak primarily Spanish. English-dominant parents…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Immersion Programs, Monolingualism, Language Enrichment
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