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Mauro Mediavilla; María-Jesús Mancebón; Luis Pires; José-María Gómez-Sancho – Research Papers in Education, 2023
In the academic year of 2004-2005, the Spanish region of Madrid began to implement a bilingual educational programme (MBP hereinafter) in state schools. One of the objectives of this programme was to make the study of a foreign language (English) accessible to students from economically disadvantaged families who cannot afford private foreign…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, School Choice, Bilingual Schools, International Assessment
Salinas, Daniel – OECD Publishing, 2021
Teaching foreign languages has become a major goal for many education systems around the world. In today's increasingly interconnected world, speaking multiple languages improves employability, fosters respect for people from other cultures, and gives young people direct access to content that would otherwise be inaccessible, including literature,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
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Martin, Andrew J.; Liem, Gregory A. D.; Mok, Magdalena M. C.; Xu, Jacob – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
The present study investigates problem-solving skill alongside more widely recognized settlement and sociodemographic factors in first-generation (1G) and second-generation (2G) immigrant students' science and mathematics achievement. A total of 113,767 students (ages 15-16 years) from 17 countries were drawn from the 2003 Programme for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Immigrants, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement