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Peer reviewedGenesee, 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
Peer reviewedGenesee, 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
Peer reviewedGenesee, Fred; And Others – Language Learning, 1983
English-speaking Canadian students were asked why they were learning French and why French-speaking Canadians wanted them to learn it, and the results were compared with their language proficiency and use. Students' expectations of motivational support from the French-Canadian community was a significant and sometimes unique predictor of…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Expectation, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedParadis, Joanne; Le Corre, Mathieu; Genesee, Fred – Second Language Research, 1998
Examines the acquisition of tense and agreement by L2 learners of French. Interviews were conducted with English-speaking children acquiring French as a second language and with grade-matched native French-speaker controls. Results revealed that items encoding agreement emerged before items encoding tense, suggesting that the abstract grammatical…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Elementary School Students, French, French Canadians
Peer reviewedGenesee, 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
Peer reviewedGenesee, Fred – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1986
Identifies differences between bilingual programs for minority language children and second-language immersion programs for majority language children. Examines points of mutual relevance between approaches. Discusses exemplary characteristics of effective second-language learning environments: integration of language and academic instruction,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies
Genesee, Fred – 1978
An investigation was undertaken to assess student attitudes toward learning and using French and their reasons for studying it. It was felt that a more thorough investigation of these issues might help to broaden knowledge of some of the non-educational, social consequences of immersion programs. English-speaking students in sixth and eleventh…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Secondary Education, French
