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Download full textWatson-Gegeo, Karen Ann – 1989
In its first year, the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program combined kindergarten and first-grade students in two classes. About half of the students had no speaking knowledge of Hawaiian; the remainder had attended Hawaiian-language preschools and/or spoke Hawaiian at home. Both teachers, fluent speakers of Hawaiian, were new to teaching. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
