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Trebits, Anna; Koch, Martin J.; Ponto, Katharina; Bruhn, Ann-Christin; Adler, Marie; Kersten, Kristin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores the relationship of early immersion education, socioeconomic background, and cognitive gains of young learners. We examine the possible advantages of early bilingual education and the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) for the cognitive development of children. Participants (N = 39) were students at regular (German) or…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Second Language Learning, Immersion Programs, Cognitive Ability
Hornsby, Michael; Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole; Chojnicka, Joanna; Toutous, Jeanne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Breton (Brittany, France) and Lower Sorbian (Brandenburg, Germany) are two of the many endangered minority languages currently undergoing revitalization. In their cases, given that intergenerational transmission in a family setting has mostly ceased, language revitalization takes the form of educational initiatives, such as the immersion program…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Language Skill Attrition, Second Language Learning
Möller, Verena – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Following recommendations by the European Commission, bilingualism has been promoted in various ways in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Language classes and the concept of immersion were gradually introduced in primary schools, while, at the secondary level, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes were…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 11, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Psychometrics
Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the attitudes of German-speaking pupils towards Sorbian-language education and the problems these pupils indicate as an obstacle to becoming bilingual through educational settings. Based on the research carried out in the Upper Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen/Budyšin (Germany) combining a statistical survey, in-depth…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
Factors, Processes and Outcomes of Early Immersion Education in the Francophone Community in Belgium
Buyl, Aafke; Housen, Alex – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Although Belgium is characterized by a widespread consensus that a functional proficiency in the two major national languages, Dutch and French, as well as in English is desirable, educational provision to achieve such proficiency has long been constrained by an official language policy which mandates that education must be monolingual in Dutch,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Outcomes of Education
Meier, Gabriela Sylvia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
A PhD literature review in the field of two-way immersion (TWI) education revealed that German TWI programmes are hardly ever mentioned in English-language publications. There have been several TWI programmes in Germany since the 1960s with an increase in number and language combinations since the 1990s. This article provides an overview of German…
Descriptors: German, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Educational Benefits
Wannagat, Ulrich – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been promoted by the European Union as a means to achieve multilingualism. While in Germany and other European countries the trend to use the L2 as a medium of instruction is increasing, in Hong Kong, however, we see a converse development. Many schools switched from English as a medium of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Language of Instruction, Interaction, Foreign Countries