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Rao, Arthi B.; Morales, P. Zitlali – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
As a state with a longstanding tradition of offering bilingual education, Illinois has a legislative requirement for native language instruction in earlier grades through a model called Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE). This model does not truly develop bilingualism, however, but rather offers native language instruction to English learners…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Transitional Programs, Native Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jones Díaz, Criss – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
In Australia, languages education in early childhood and primary education includes three main approaches: transitional, enrichment and full bilingual programmes. This article proposes that transitional and enrichment programmes in Australia are constituted and shaped by competing and contested institutional, material, discursive and economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Transitional Programs, Bilingual Education Programs
Villegas, Ana Maria; Schulman, Robert – 1984
The program described here provided instruction in ESL and native language studies, as well as bilingual instruction in mathematics, social studies, science, and career education, to 240 Spanish-speaking students of limited English proficiency. The emphasis of this program--in its third and final year at Walton High School (Bronx, New York)--was…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness, English (Second Language)
Augustin, Marc – 1992
Project HAITT STARS (now in its fourth year) was designed to provide Haitian-, Spanish-, and Chinese-speaking high school students of limited English proficiency (who scored at or below the 40th percentile on the Language Assessment Battery) in three schools in Brooklyn and Queens, New York with instruction in the beginning through transitional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Career Counseling, Chinese Americans
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1992
Students from Lafayette High School and Pershing Intermediate School in Brooklyn, New York who were of Spanish and Cantonese linguistic backgrounds (and who scored at or below the 40th percentile on the Language Assessment Battery) received intensive instruction in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and native language arts (NLA) in Spanish or…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cantonese, Career Education, Dropout Prevention
Wenner, Jackie; McKay, Penny – 1986
The report details the results of a 2-year followup study of immigrant students in South Australia high schools. The students (n=91) had all been participants in a New Arrivals transitional program, then scattered in different high schools. The study focused on the status, 2 years later, of students leaving the New Arrivals program in the second…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Age Differences, Counseling Services