Academic Achievement in Bilingual and Immersion Education

Academic Achievement in Bilingual and Immersion Education

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  • Author: Elizabeth Rata
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000521826
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 167

This book is about two innovative methods for teachers of bilingual students to use in improving their academic achievement. Transacquisition Pedagogy or TAP developed by Tauwehe Sophie Tamati is the method described in the book’s first part. It uses principles of flexible bilingualism and a task sequenced approach. The success of TAP in an intervention study in two of New Zealand’s Māori schools illustrates how cognitive and linguistic processes can be used to increase student conceptual understanding and to improve their academic biliteracy. Part two is about the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC Model) created by Elizabeth Rata. It shows teachers how to design concepts, content and competencies to connect academic knowledge and thinking processes. The CDC Model has proved its success in the Knowledge-Rich School Project in New Zealand and England. TransAcquistion Pedagogy and the CDC Model are aligned. TAP works by putting the CDC design method into practice. The separate usefulness of TAP and the CDC Model and the added value of their alignment provides an innovative approach to education. Used together or separately they provide invaluable teaching methods for bilingual, immersion and mainstream education.


Pathways to Multilingualism

Pathways to Multilingualism

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  • Author: Tara Williams Fortune
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847690351
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 307

Aimed at facilitating cross-context dialogue & knowledge exchange, this volume brings together an international roster of scholars to offer theoretical perspectices, research reviews & empirical studies on teaching, learning & language development in immersion education.


Immersion Education

Immersion Education

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  • Author: Robert Keith Johnson
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521586559
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

Within bilingual education, more and more programs are adopting the option of immersion education, in which a second language is used as the medium of instruction. This volume illustrates the implementation immersion education in North America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, showing its use in programs ranging from preprimary to tertiary level and demonstrating how it can function in foreign language teaching, for teaching a minority language to members of the language majority, for reviving or supporting languages at risk of extinction, and for helping learners acquire a language needed for wider communication or career advancement. A final section reviews lessons learned from experiences with immersion and explores new directions the approach is taking. This text will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, and others involved in bilingual education.


Dual Language Education

Dual Language Education

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  • Author: Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853595318
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.


A Humanizing Dual Language Immersion Education

A Humanizing Dual Language Immersion Education

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  • Author: Yvette V. Lapayese
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004389725
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 111

A Humanizing Dual Language Immersion Education positions bilingual education within a human rights framework, moving beyond pedagogical effectiveness in traditional schools to capturing the deeper mantra that DLI revolve around the present realities, epistemologies, and humanness of our bilingual youth.


Immersion Education

Immersion Education

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  • Author: Diane J. Tedick
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 184769473X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

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.


Becoming Biliterate

Becoming Biliterate

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  • Author: Bertha Perez
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135620857
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers, and policymakers. Pérez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation that were used to test the basic two-way bilingual theory, the specific school interventions, and the particular classroom instructional practices. The contribution of Becoming Biliterate: A Study of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Education is to provide a comprehensive description of contextual and instructional factors that might help or hinder the attainment of successful literacy and student outcomes in both languages. The study has broad theoretical, policy, and practical instructional relevance for the many other U.S. school districts with large student populations of non-native speakers of English. This volume is highly relevant for researchers, teacher educators, and graduate students in bilingual and ESL education, language policy, linguistics, and language education, and as a text for master's- and doctoral-level classes in these areas.


Bilingual Education

Bilingual Education

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  • Author: María Estela Brisk
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135618399
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable. Findings from a wide range of studies are integrated to provide a clear picture of bilingual education in today's schools, and a professional understanding of the foundations and issues surrounding bilingual education programs. The recommendations offered provide a comprehensive basis for planning, developing, improving, and evaluating bilingual programs. For clarity, these recommendations are discussed with respect to the whole school, the curriculum, and the classroom, but it is stressed that they need to be applied in a holistic way because they depend on each other. All educators who work or will work with bilingual students--classroom teachers, administrators, and curricula developers--will find the information in this text essential and will appreciate the straightforward approach and easy reading style. New in the Second Edition: *A new Chapter 1, Pursuing Successful Schooling, includes the definition of success that frames the content of the book, and a review of how the research on bilingual education has changed. *Chapter 2, Bilingual Education Debate, is substantially revised to address major changes in demographics and legislation. *Chapter 3, Contextual and Individual Factors: Supports and Challenges, is updated to include important new research on the external and internal factors affecting learners and a new section on peers. *Chapter 4, Creating a Good School, is reorganized and updated. *Chapter 5, Creating Quality Curriculum, is updated throughout, particularly the sections on teaching content areas and assessment. *Chapter 6, Creating Quality Instruction, includes extensive new material in the sections on "Teaching English and In English" and "Teaching Students with Limited Schooling." *Chapter 7, Beyond the Debate, has an extensive new section describing and analyzing how the framework for quality education can be used as a guide to help create a new program.


Pathways to Multilingualism

Pathways to Multilingualism

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  • Author: Tara Williams Fortune
  • Publisher: Bilingual Education & Bilingua
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

In this volume an international roster of scholars offers theoretical perspectives, research reviews and empirical studies on teaching, learning and language development in immersion education. The editors bring together research from three distinct branches, including foreign language, bilingual and indigenous immersion programs.


Teaching and Testing for Academic Achievement

Teaching and Testing for Academic Achievement

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  • Author: Muriel Saville-Troike
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Academic achievement
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 20