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Structured English Immersion for Hispanic Students in the U.S.: Findings from the Fourteen-Year Evaluation of the Uvalde, Texas, Program.
Gersten, Russell; And Others – 1984
Evaluation of a structured immersion program, operating since 1968 in Uvalde, Texas as part of the United States Department of Education's Project Follow Through, suggests that the structured immersion approach has had a consistent positive effect on the academic achievement of the language minority students involved. Approximately 130 Spanish…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
The Effects of a Structured Immersion Approach to Minority Language Asian Students: Results of a Longitudinal Evaluation.
Gersten, Russell – 1984
The evolution and evaluation of an elementary level structured immersion program in English as a second language are described. The program provides all academic instruction in English, but at a level that students can understand. It is ungraded, uses bilingual teachers who speak the students' native language, and has both developmental and direct…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)