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Direct linkMitsui, Akiko; Donato, Richard; Tucker, G. Richard – Learning Languages, 2007
During the summer of 2005, a longtime Japanese teacher at a K-8 school in southwestern Pennsylvania unexpectedly resigned. The school, unable to recruit a new teacher for the 2005-2006 school year, chose to suspend the teaching of Japanese and to establish a committee to examine the foreign language program within the overall school curriculum. In…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Grade 4
Nault, Dianne M. – Learning Languages, 2007
In immersion programs, language is not directly taught, but rather embedded into the content of a lesson. The target language is the medium of the lesson, not the object of the instruction. A story provides a language experience and encourages students to participate actively in the lesson. Children are also more apt to learn and retain ideas and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Immersion Programs, Picture Books, American Indians
