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Designing Bilingual Education: Aspects of Immersion and "European School" Models.
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Baetens Beardsmore, Hugo; Swain, Merrill – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Compares two different types of bilingual education programs--the Canadian immersion programs, designed primarily for foreign language enrichment, and the European School bilingual education program, designed primarily for language maintenance. Achievement scores for both approaches were comparable, pointing to the importance of environment and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, French, Immersion Programs
Research on the Acculturation Model for Second Language Acquisition.
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Schumann, John H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Presents a model of second language acquisition based on the social-psychology of acculturation, including factors in social, affective, personality, cognitive, biological, aptitude, personal, input, and instructional areas. Studies which test this model are reviewed and evaluated. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Style, Language Aptitude