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Kambutu, John; Nganga, Lydiah W. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This narrative inquiry explored the effectiveness of planned international experiences in promoting cultural awareness, understanding and appreciation among American educators. Participating educators (n=12) were immersed in foreign cultures for 2-3 weeks during three different summers. To document the effectiveness of cultural immersion,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Immersion Programs, Summer Programs, Teacher Educators
Knell, Ellen Shipley – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study investigated the efficacy of early English immersion in the Shi Da Fu Elementary School in Xi'an, China. Three hundred and fifty one students were tested in Grades 1-6. There were two main purposes that motivated this longitudinal and cross-sectional study. The first goal was to compare the L1 and L2 language and literacy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Immersion Programs, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness
Kersten, Kristin, Ed.; Rohde, Andreas, Ed.; Schelletter, Christina, Ed.; Steinlen, Anja K., Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
Drawing on data from eleven preschools in four European countries (Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK), this edited volume explores the progress of preschool children learning English over a period of two years. In the first volume, children's lexical and grammatical comprehension, the quality of L2 input, the effect of immersion on L1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, English (Second Language)
Stairs, Andrea J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
A primary purpose of teacher education is to prepare and induct candidates into the teaching profession. What does it mean to be a professional educator? Is deep content knowledge really enough as the federal government and others suggest? Does professionalism look different in urban contexts? How do teachers learn to navigate the multiple…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
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Fanta-Vagenshtein, Yarden – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2011
Language proficiency is a crucial factor for immigrants to integrate successfully in the new society in all aspects of life, especially in the labor market. As a result, there is great importance in acquiring the new language as quickly and effectively as possible. Several factors affect second language acquisition, including motivation, age,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Block, Nicholas – Bilingual Research Journal, 2011
Forty initially English-dominant Latino students in four 90:10 Spanish two-way dual-immersion programs and 62 of their peers in mainstream English programs were studied to find out if their attitudes toward Spanish and Spanish-dominant individuals differ. Significant differences were found on many variables, with two-way dual-immersion students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Biculturalism, Statistical Significance
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Fulkerson, Gregory – Learning Languages, 2009
This article describes three big programs from Delaware where the less commonly taught languages find their home in Delaware elementary schools. Odyssey Charter School, located in Wilmington, is one of the very few Greek-language-focused public schools in the nation. The school began in 2006 as a Greek immersion program that concentrated on the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Activities, Elementary Schools, Speech
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Huang, Sharon – Learning Languages, 2009
The impetus to begin Bilingual Buds came about six years ago when the author, pregnant with twins and commuting into New York City, was reading about the numerous cognitive benefits for children of acquiring a second language early in their lives. She was surprised to learn that even by the age of six months, children begin to lose the ability to…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Bilingualism
Rugasken, Kris; Harris, Jacqueline A. – Learning Assistance Review, 2009
A summer English camp language immersion program, which began in 2003, provided instruction by native English speakers to Thai college students via collaboration between Prince of Songkla University in Thailand and Ball State University in Indiana, USA. During this program, Thai students were exposed to English formally through classroom…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Cultural Awareness, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries
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Palmer, Deborah K. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
Two-way bilingual immersion education, offered in a fast-growing number of primary schools in the United States, provides primary language maintenance to minority language speakers while simultaneously offering an enrichment "foreign" language immersion experience to English-speaking children in the same classroom, generally with the same teacher.…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education
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Peter, Lizette; Hirata-Edds, Tracy – Bilingual Research Journal, 2009
In an effort to revitalize the Cherokee language, Cherokee Nation launched an immersion program for preschool and elementary children in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Central to the curriculum is literacy in the Cherokee writing system known as "syllabary". This study focuses on sociocultural and sociolinguistic evidence toward an understanding…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Literacy Education, Immersion Programs, Written Language
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de la Colina, Ana Alegria; Mayo, Maria del Pilar Garcia – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2009
The role of the first language (L1) in the learning of a second language (L2) has been widely studied as a source of cross-linguistic influence from the native system (Gass and Selinker, "Language Transfer in Language Learning," John Benjamins, 1992). Yet, this perspective provides no room for an understanding of language as a cognitive tool…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Language Role
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McCullough, Ruanda Garth; Reyes, Sharon Adelman – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2010
This article explores the benefits and challenges of a Spanish language immersion preschool from the perspective of a non-Spanish speaking African American family. Data explored include the decision to enroll, reactions from peers and family, home-school communication issues, language development, and family involvement. In addition,…
Descriptors: African American Children, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Family Involvement
Menke, Mandy R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Native-like pronunciation is necessary for membership into some social groups and to be considered a legitimate speaker of a language. Language immersion education aims to develop bilingual individuals, able to participate in multiple global communities, and while the lexical, syntactic, and sociolinguistic development of immersion learners is…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Oral Language, Immersion Programs, Vowels
Lino, Timothy K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As data depict, Native Hawaiian public school students consistently rank among the lowest of all ethnic groups by nearly every measure of academic engagement and success (Kana'iaupuni & Ishibashi, 2003). As is common with many children of indigenous ancestry, teaching methodologies, pedagogical strategies, and structures of mainstream or…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Secondary School Students, Hawaiians, Academic Achievement
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