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Amado M. Padilla; Xinjie Chen; Elizabeth Swanson; Margaret Peterson; Tatiana Zamora; Tami Girsky – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
Seven cohorts of students (N = 258) who completed a K-5 Spanish Immersion (SI) program in a suburban California school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school to understand their academic, language, and social emotional outcomes. Academic and language outcomes included Spanish classes and grades, standardized Math and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Middle School Students, High School Students, Second Language Learning
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Padilla, Amado M.; Fan, Lorraine; Xu, Xiaoqiu; Silva, Duarte – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
A Mandarin/English two-way immersion elementary program is described from its inception and implementation through the fifth grade, the culminating year of the program. All students in all grades were assessed on their oral/listening, reading, and writing performance in Mandarin using program-created assessment measures. Fifth-grade students also…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs
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Masciantonio, Rudolph – Foreign Language Annals, 1983
Describes a staff development project involving course work with linguistic and cultural material designed to prepare fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade classroom teachers and secondary school English teachers in the use of certain Latin curriculum materials with their classes. Evaluation of the project shows a positive effect on the verbal ability…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Arts, Latin