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Chen, Mengyao – Journal of Education, 2023
This study reviews the emerging studies on the topic of Chinese immersion programs in the U.S. The effectiveness of Chinese immersion programs has been proved to have positive impacts on students' language proficiency, academic performance, and cognitive development. However, challenges in curriculum and instructions, behavior management, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement
National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, Washington, DC. – 1982
Fourteen separate bilingual education fact sheets produced during 1982 have been assembled into one document presenting educators with a variety of topics on bilingual education in public education. The first fact sheet advocates bilingual instruction, despite the popular argument that other immigrants of the past did not need bilingual education…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers
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Gersten, Russell; And Others – Equity and Excellence, 1988
Despite claims that structured immersion programs for language minority students cannot work for low-income students, two immersion projects with low-income Hispanic and Asian children worked; their effects appeared to endure even after students entered the mainstream. (BJV)
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development
Mead, Robert G., Jr., Ed. – 1983
The articles discuss the necessity of including foreign language as an integral part of the curriculum at all levels of instruction. The following chapters are included: "Elementary School Foreign Language: Key Link in the Chain of Learning" (rationale, innovations, immersion programs, and interdisciplinary approaches); "Foreign…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies