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Torres, Rhina – Center for Cities & Schools, 2018
According to 2016-2017 school enrollment data, 31.6% of K-5 students were English Learners (ELs) in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Of the many languages spoken at home by students, the most popular languages other than English are Spanish (19.14%) and Cantonese (15.88%). To respond to their needs, SFUSD offers programming that…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Immersion Programs

Genesee, Fred – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1983
Describes immersion programs in the United States and Canada and reviews results of evaluative research pertaining to them. Discusses findings with respect to students' native-language development, academic achievement, and second language proficiency. Also discusses the suitability of immersion for students with distinctive, potentially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Immersion Programs

Stone, James C. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1984
This study evaluates the quality of the teaching in an English immersion program on a South Pacific island. Naturalistic versus rationalistic language acquisition is discussed. The language proficiency of nonnative English speaking teachers is tested and related to the children's language proficiency. (MT)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Followup Studies, Foreign Countries

Harley, Birgit; King, Mary Lou – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Compares the lexical proficiency of 69 grade 6 immersion students with that of 22 native French-speaking peers, based on verb use and in 5 written compositions. Measures of lexical error, variety, specificity, and sophistication show clear differences between the two groups. (33 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, French, Grade 6

Harley, Birgit – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Study of the effects of a functional approach to grammar teaching on a sixth-grade French immersion class found that those subjects exposed to an experimental set of teaching materials outperformed control subjects at the end of eight weeks. There were no significant differences between the groups after three months. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, French, Grade 6

Rosenbusch, Marcia H. – Hispania, 1985
Suggests that in certain regions of the country such as Iowa, two foreign language goals should take precedence over the goal of language proficiency in elementary schools: (1) to introduce children to other languages and cultures, and (2) to show that they can learn to communicate successfully in another language. (SED)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, FLES, Immersion Programs
Thompson, Lynn E.; Kenyon, Dorry M.; Rhodes, Nancy C. – 2002
This study validated the Student Oral Proficiency Assessment (SOPA), an oral proficiency instrument designed for students in elementary foreign language programs. Elementary students who were tested with the SOPA were also administered other instruments designed to measure proficiency. These instruments included the Stanford Foreign Language Oral…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, FLES, Immersion Programs

Lindholm, Kathryn J. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1991
Studies second and third grade Spanish and English native speakers' proficiency in both languages and academic achievement, following exposure to extended-length bilingual/immersion program. Considers theoretical assumptions regarding language-thought relationship. Results link bilingualism and achievement. Identifies two language-proficiency…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education

Swain, Merrill – Studia Linguistica, 1981
The fact that early immersion in a second language has led to bilingualism and academic success among majority language children has been used as an argument against mother tongue instruction for minority language children. However, for minority language children, immersion in a second language has often led to language loss and academic failure.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Education

Genesee, Fred – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Reviews research findings as they relate to the acquisition of reading skills (in the first and second language) by majority-group school children participating in early immersion programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Immersion Programs, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction

Van der Keilen, Marguerite – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Compares the degree to which pupils in the French immersion and regular English school programs speak French and initiate contact with French people. Attitudes and motivations were significantly more positive, and social tolerance and self-rated competency in French were much higher in the immersion than in English program subjects. (29…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Academic Achievement through Japanese, Spanish, or French: The First Two Years of Partial Immersion.

Thomas, Wayne P.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1993
Compared 719 first-, second-, third-grade students enrolled in partial-immersion (PI) programs in Japanese, Spanish, or French to 3 comparison groups. Outcome measures used were a mathematics test, Metropolitan Achievement Test in Reading, and Student Oral Proficiency Rating. PI students scored at least as well as, and to some extent better than,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, French
Chamot, Anna Uhl – 1983
Structured immersion, or transfer instruction, is proposed as a bridging program between English as a second language or bilingual programs and the all-English medium classroom. The theoretical background underlying the transfer of knowledge and skills from a child's first language to English is reviewed. Based on the assumption that learners will…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)

Genesee, F.; And Others – Language Learning, 1978
Presents results of the fourth evaluation of trilingual school programs in French, Hebrew, and English being offered on an experimental basis in several elementary schools in Montreal. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English, French

Genesee, Fred; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1989
Reports the results of a comparative evaluation of an early total immersion program, a delayed immersion program, and an all French program for English-speaking language majority students in Montreal, Canada. (33 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods