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Smith, Samuel – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1988
Research concerning the success factors in language immersion education is reviewed, focusing on five major schools of thought. First, the traditional model for immersion research, implemented in a Montreal (Canada) suburb is examined. Then three studies of the influence of affective variables in immersion program success are examined, and it is…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
McCaleb, Joseph L. – 1978
Research studies indicate that beginning teachers choose instructional procedures which conflict with their methods courses and that language is the least well-taught of the English instruction components. To deal with both problems in teacher preparation, a study was devised to analyze the effects of a reinforcing module in language instruction,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Research, English Education, English Instruction
MEAD, ROBERT G., JR. – 1966
TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON CURRENT PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE PROFESSION, THE 1966 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHED ITS WORKING COMMITTEE REPORTS ON LANGUAGE LEARNING RESEARCH, WIDER USES FOR LANGUAGES, AND THE SUPERVISION AND COORDINATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. THE FIRST REPORT, "RESEARCH AND LANGUAGE LEARNING,"…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination

Rossier, Robert E. – READ Perspectives, 1993
Argues that the theoretical consensus on second language learning, which focuses on instruction in the target language, contradicts the main premises used by bilingual education advocates to gain respectability for bilingual education programs. The roles of translation, transfer, input, and interaction in the Eastman model of bilingual education,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Criticism, Educational Attitudes, Educational Policy