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Whiting, Erin; Feinauer, Erika; VanDerwerken, Douglas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Scholars who work with Latino/as in the USA have long been calling for a more nuanced understanding of the heterogeneity of the US-based Latino population. Two-way Immersion (TWI) bilingual education programmes are an interesting context in which to examine the Latino parent communities in the USA. Overall, the language enrichment nature of TWI…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Parent Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Language Enrichment
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Yu, Vivienne W. S.; Atkinson, Paul A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Responses of 118 Cantonese-speaking students at Hong Kong English-medium secondary schools to a questionnaire indicated those factors that contribute to the ineffectiveness of the English-medium education include: (1) lack of exposure to English outside the classroom; (2) absence of the Hawthorne effect on the immersion programs; and (3)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cantonese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries