The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA): Articulation of Language Instruction. The ACIE Newsletter, February 1. Vol. 2. By Jack Brondum and Nancy Stenson, Parents. Emerson Spanish Immersion Learning Center,Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Immersion education can take a number of forms. These vary. according to the amount of the second language used per day.
Typically, students starting. English speakers.
In a K- 5. or K- 6 elementary school, 1. Grades K and 1. Children learn to.
The amount of immersion instruction. Grade 2 with the addition of English.
Grade 5 or 6. Here, less. This percent remains. Reading is taught in. When feasible, each.
As with full immersion. English speakers. One example of double immersion is the French- Hebrew. Montreal, Canada. However, some programs start later, providing formal. Grades 3 and 4 or later. For a given type of.
Two- way immersion is designed to serve. English and non- English speakers. The latter group will. Children. from each language group are mixed in the same classroom. Two- way immersion programs, as one- way.
In the upper grades, instruction is typically. Spanish and half in English. In theory, two- way immersion. English speakers to learn Spanish while continuing. English skills. Spanish speakers learn English.
Children from well- established.
French immersion. French immersion most popular in the Maritimes. More girls enrol in immersion. Immersion students outperform non- immersion students in reading. French immersion students tend to have higher socio- economic. The role of self- selection and other possible factors.
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References. French immersion programs were introduced into Canadian schools in the. Thirty years later. This feature article looks at.
PISA results for reading achievement, comparing French- immersion and. English- language school systems in the ten provinces. Information on French immersion in PISA was provided by parents. Parents. were asked if their child was ever enrolled in an English school in a. French, such. as French immersion. They were then asked in which grades their child. A student was considered.
French immersion program when parents reported. While French immersion programs exist in English language school systems. British Columbia to 3. New Brunswick. (Table 1). Not all French immersion programs are alike.
Early immersion programs. Kindergarten or Grade 1; middle immersion programs start. In turn, attendance in immersion varies by the type of program. While the percentage. French was generally very small, most. Manitoba, where about one- quarter of French immersion.
French. In all but one province (Manitoba), students in French immersion programs. Table 2). Educational. Quarterly Review, Volume 9, number 4, pages 2. However. when the reading results for boys and girls are considered separately. French immersion students is still significantly. Manitoba. Overall, there is a strong relationship between reading achievement and. SES). background.
While differences in family socio- economic background contribute. French immersion programs. French immersion students is not that straightforward. In general, students in French immersion programs tend to come from better.
However, in four provinces - . Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia - there were no real. Finally, when only students from families in the top socio- economic quartile. Although further research is needed into factors leading to the higher.
French immersion students, in general, parents of. Also, a higher proportion.
PISA results show that girls outperform. However, when gender, socio- economic background and parents’ education. French immersion students. What additional. factors might contribute to the high reading performance of French immersion.
It may be that French immersion programs are more readily available in. There is also the question of self- selection. Schools and parents may. There may also. be a tendency for less- skilled students to transfer out of immersion programs. It may be the case, as other studies suggest, that French immersion programs.
A positive peer effect may occur, for example, when students. Clearly, more research is needed to allow us to fully explain why students. French immersion programs tend to score higher on reading literacy.
That research will continue to explore the. French immersion programs, and school resources. When considered together. French immersion programs. This article is based on Allen, Mary (2. Educational. Quarterly Review, Volume 9, number 4, pages 2.
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