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Language Learning Motivation in Early Adolescents: Using Mixed Methods Research to Explore Contradiction
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Wesely, Pamela M. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2010
This mixed methods study with an Explanatory Design is an exploration of students' language learning motivation as it relates to their attrition from a language immersion program. A total of 131 students who had graduated from five public elementary immersion schools responded to surveys, and 33 of those students were interviewed. Data analysis…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Immersion Programs, Elementary Education
A Latent Variable Approach to Listening and Reading: Testing Factorial Invariance Across Two Groups of Children in the Korean/English Two-Way Immersion Program.
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Bae, Jungok; Bachman, Lyle F. – Language Testing, 1998
A study investigated the factorial distinctiveness of two receptive language skills, listening and reading, and the equivalence of factor structure across two groups. Subjects were 156 students, Korean-Americans and non-Korean-Americans, in grades two through four in a two-way bilingual education program. Students were tested in listening and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, English (Second Language), Grade 2
First Language Acquisition in a Second Language Submersion Environment.
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Verhoeven, Ludo Th.; Boeschoten, Hendrik E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
First-language acquisition of Turkish 4- to 8-year-olds in a Dutch submersion environment in the Netherlands was studied. Investigation of the development of lexical, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic abilities and comparison with children in Turkey suggested that the acquisition of first-language skills by Turkish children in the Netherlands is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dutch, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students