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Yuen Yi Lo; Daniel Fung; Xuyan Qiu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
As the content knowledge of English language learners and immigrant students is assessed in their less proficient language, the validity and fairness of assessments related to those students have been widely discussed. However, such assessment issues have not received much attention in rapidly expanding bilingual education programmes, where…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation
Relaño-Pastor, Ana Maria; Fernández-Barrera, Alicia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This article focuses on the 'native speaker effects' (Doerr, N. M., ed. 2009. "The Native Speaker Concept: Ethnographic Investigations of Native Speaker Effects." Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter) pertaining to the construction of eliteness in Spanish-English CLIL-type bilingual programmes in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Spanish, Bilingual Education Programs, Language of Instruction
Wei, Rining – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
While many studies conducted outside China attest to the importance of parental support in determining the extent of success in implementing a bilingual education (BE) programme, few empirical studies have been conducted into the strength of parental support for Chinese-English BE in mainland China. This paper reports upon a survey targeting…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)

Tacelosky, Kathleen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001
Investigates how language choice for education contributes to changes in the way a society views and uses language in the context of the Peruvian Amazon. Oral surveys were administered to Shipibo people in 13 communities along the Ucayali River of eastern Peru where a transition type bilingual education program was introduced several decades ago.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language of Instruction

Morren, Ronald C. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2002
Depicts the impetus and drive behind the development of a primary trilingual education curriculum for the Western Caribbean Archipelago of San Andre, Providence, and Santa Catalina. Based on outcomes in other multilingual education projects, hypothesizes positive academic gains in all areas at a cost benefit to the national government. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Creoles, Curriculum Development

Altena, Nelleke; Appel, Rene – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1982
Presents results of research on the second-language proficiency of children participating in an experimental bilingual school, where children used mother tongue 75 percent the first year, 40 percent the second. Children attended neighborhood schools from the third year on. Supports the claim that mother tongue teaching does not harm…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Schools, Dutch

Morren, Ronald C. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Describes the process for developing a bilingual curriculum for Guatemala's four largest Mayan language groups. The process took into account the Mayans' maintenance of a distinct linguistic and cultural identity. The results of this experimental curriculum and the current direction of bilingual education in Guatemala are discussed. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity

Lofgren, Horst; Ouvinen-Birgerstam, Pirjo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1982
Describes a bilingual education program for Finnish children in Sweden. Analyzes some of the factors influencing the school and language achievement of the Finnish pupils and compares their achievement level with other relevant student groups. (EKN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education

Milk, Robert D.; Lopez, Luis Enrique – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
While bilingual education programs in Peru are promoted as educational alternatives, designed for a specific group with the intention of strengthening the community's capacity to achieve its own goals, Texas programs are "substitute" programs to compensate for presumed deficits until the student can function in a "regular"…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education

Minaya-Rowe, Liliana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Presents a model of the sociocultural circumstances surrounding the development of language policies and planning and of bilingual education programs in the United States and three Andean countries: Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences

Dodson, C. J.; Thomas, Sara E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Presents a longitudinal examination of the effects of certain types of schooling (bilingual, immersion, mixed-language) on the concept development of monolingual, developing bilingual, or competent bilingual children in Wales. Results indicated that immersion programs temporarily retarded concept development of second language beginners.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Concept Formation, English, Foreign Countries