Immersion Education : Practices, Policies, Possibilities.
Title:
Immersion Education : Practices, Policies, Possibilities.
Author:
CHRISTIAN, Donna.
ISBN:
9781847694041
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Series:
Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Contents:
Series Editor -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 The Future of Immersion Education: An Invitation to 'Dwell in Possibility' D.J. Tedick, D. Christian and T.W. Fortune -- Part 1: Practices in Immersion Program Design -- 2 Integrating Multiple Languages in Immersion: Swedish Immersion in Finland S. Björklund and K. Mård-Miettinen -- 3 Insights from Indigenous Language Immersion in Hawai'i W.H. Wilson and K. Kamanā -- 4 Two-Way Immersion Charter Schools: An Analysis of Program Characteristics and Student Body Compositions G. Zehrbach -- Part 2: Program Outcomes and Implications for Practice -- 5 Student Outcomes in Chinese Two-Way Immersion Programs: Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement and Student Attitudes K. Lindholm-Leary -- 6 The Same Outcomes for All? High-School Students Reflect on Their Two-Way Immersion Program Experiences E.J. de Jong and C.I. Bearse -- 7 French Immersion Studies at the University of Ottawa: Programme Evaluation and Pedagogical Challenges S. Burger, A. Weinberg, C. Hall, P. Movassat and A. Hope -- Part 3: Language Use and Assessment Practices in Immersion Programs -- 8 'I Thought That We Had Good Irish': Irish Immersion Students' Insights into Their Target Language Use P. Ó Duibhir -- 9 Talking in the Fifth-Grade Classroom: Language Use in an Early, Total Spanish Immersion Program M.A. Broner and D.J. Tedick -- 10 Using Language Assessment to Inform Instruction in Indigenous Language Immersion L. Peter, G. Sly and T. Hirata-Edds -- Part 4: Policy and Practice in Immersion Education -- 11 Context and Constraints: Immersion in Hong Kong and Mainland China P. Hoare -- 12 US Immigrants and Two-Way Immersion Policies: The Mismatch between District Designs and Family Experiences L.M. Dorner.
13 Struggling Learners and the Language Immersion Classroom T.W. Fortune -- 14 Reflecting on Possibilities for Immersion F. Genesee -- Index.
Abstract:
This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick's 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education. Questions explored include: What possibilities for program design exist in charter programs for both two-way and indigenous models? How do studies on learner outcomes lead to possibilities for improvements in program implementation? How do existing policies and practices affect struggling immersion learners and what possibilities can be imagined to better serve such learners? In addressing such questions, the volume invites readers to consider the possibilities of immersion education to enrich the language development and educational achievement of future generations of learners.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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