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Susan Ballinger; Laurent Cammarata; Marianne Barker; Lana Zeaiter – Language Awareness, 2024
Research demonstrates that content, language, and literacy integration is challenging for teachers working in content-based instructional contexts such as immersion and Content and Language Integrated Learning. Although teacher preparation programs for content-based instruction contexts exist, it is unclear whether and how they help…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, French, Foreign Countries
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Buser, Melanie; Melfi, Giuseppe – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The "Filière Bilingue" (FiBi) is a Swiss public two-way immersion program integrating French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone learners (having neither French nor German as an L1) in each class. Located in the bilingual city of Biel/ Bienne, the "diglossic" situation represented by the use of Swiss German and standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, German, Immersion Programs
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Trebits, Anna; Koch, Martin J.; Ponto, Katharina; Bruhn, Ann-Christin; Adler, Marie; Kersten, Kristin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores the relationship of early immersion education, socioeconomic background, and cognitive gains of young learners. We examine the possible advantages of early bilingual education and the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) for the cognitive development of children. Participants (N = 39) were students at regular (German) or…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Second Language Learning, Immersion Programs, Cognitive Ability
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Emilie S. Le Caous; Tz-Li Wang – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2025
This study investigates the enhancement of spoken English proficiency among students at Taiwan's technological and vocational education (TVE) universities. The focus is on the significant impact of positive learning attitudes and effective methodologies, using questionnaires and in-depth interviews to assess students' confidence and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students
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Zalbidea, Janire; Issa, Bernard I.; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Evidence suggests that short-term study abroad experiences can help advance various dimensions of second language (L2) learners' linguistic competence. However, the extent to which gains following a brief sojourn are durable and maintained after immersion remains an open question. The present study examined both the immediate and sustained…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Student Behavior, Psychological Patterns
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Mahammod Moninoor Roshid; Shaila Sultana – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The strengths and limitations of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) have been extensively studied in the field of English language teaching. However, limited attention has been given to the aspirations of non-elite middle-class parents in Bangladesh, who strongly value EMI for its perceived instrumental benefits, thereby creating a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Bin; Li, Yee Na; Hua, Congchao – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Language learning has long been one of the most challenging issues facing non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students who are mainly ethnic minorities immersed in a multilingual environment in Hong Kong. Previous research on the education of NCS students suggested that early support from an immersion programme at a pre-school age may contribute to higher…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Multilingualism, Minority Group Students, Foreign Countries
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Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina; Gruber, Alice – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Many language learners lack the motivation to read complex texts. Because high-immersion Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly reported to be highly motivating, the goal of our study was to compare English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' (N=79) motivation while reading a story with subtitles in VR (experimental group) versus reading the same…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Motivation, Immersion Programs, Computer Simulation
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Sandra Preusler; Johanna Fleckenstein; Steffen Zitzmann; Jürgen Baumert; Jens Möller – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Multilingualism is often associated with advantages for acquiring additional languages. Theoretical approaches explain these advantages by assuming a Common Underlying Proficiency or a Metalinguistic Awareness. At the State Europe School in Berlin, students from different language backgrounds receive instruction in German and a partner language…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, German, English (Second Language)
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Tse, Shek Kam; Pang, Emily Y. W.; To, Heiken; Tsui, Pik Fong; Lam, Lu Sai – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Chinese as the medium of instruction (MOI) is used across the curriculum for early childhood education in Hong Kong; however, kindergartens with non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students adopt different MOI, in which English remains an integral part of learning and teaching, to cater to the needs of NCS students and their families. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Chang; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; Douglas, Heather; Lafay, Anne; Osana, Helena P.; Simms, Victoria; Wylie, Judith; Maloney, Erin A.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Canadian students enrolled in either French-immersion or English-instruction programs were followed from Grades 2 to 3 (M[subscript age] = 7.8 years to 8.9 years; N = 244; 55% girls). In each grade, students completed two mathematical tasks that required oral language processing (i.e., word-problem solving and number transcoding from dictation)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, French, English
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Liu, Yiqi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The last two decades have seen huge changes in the focus of English language education in non-Anglophone countries and jurisdictions around the world. English as a medium of instruction (EMI), as opposed to English as the object of instruction has been burgeoning in many Asian societies. While there is fruitful research on English language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingual Education
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Yu, Baohua; Ding, Feng; Yuan, Rui Eric – Educational Studies, 2022
The present study seeks to explore the long-term impact of an overseas immersion programme on pre-service teachers' professional learning in Hong Kong. In-depth interviews with 11 pre-service teachers about their immersion experiences and post-immersion learning revealed their professional gains and challenges brought by their exposure to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Processes, Student Attitudes
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Bialystok, Ellen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Bilingual education has been an educational option in many countries for over 50 years but it remains controversial, especially in terms of its appropriateness for all children. The present review examines research evaluating the outcomes of bilingual education for language and literacy levels, academic achievement, and suitability for children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
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Becker, Misha – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital city of the bilingual Basque Autonomous Community of Spain, is a largely Spanish-speaking city: over 90% of the city's population claims Spanish as their native language and less than one-fifth of the city's adult population is bilingual in Basque and Spanish (compare with more than one-third of the population of San…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Bilingual Education
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