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This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers, and policymakers. Pérez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation that were used to test the basic two-way bilingual th

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This book provides a rich and unique longitudinal account of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The chapters report on the findings from a large-scale, three-year research project undertaken at senior high school level in Sweden. The ecological perspective, with quantitative and qualitative methods, gives voice to both learners and teachers, as well as being an excellent critical example of how such longitudinal research might be carried out. Through emic and etic approaches, the book provides insights into language learning outcomes, both with regard to the target language English and the majority language Swedish; learner motivation among CLIL and non-CLIL students; effects of extramural exposure to English; issues in relation to assessment in CLIL and much more. As a whole, the book offers an unprecedented overview of learner outcomes and detailed insights into the comparison of CLIL and non-CLIL education. While it is embedded in the Swedish context, the nature of this study means that it has strong implications on an international basis.

English language --- Language arts (Secondary) --- Language and education --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Language and languages --- Germanic languages --- Language arts --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Swedish speakers. --- Correlation with content subjects --- Immersion method. --- Study and teaching --- CLIL. --- CLISS. --- Content and Language Integrated Learning . --- L2/FL learning motivation. --- SLA. --- assessment practices of CLIL. --- bilingualism. --- effects of CLIL on the target language. --- extramural English. --- language learning assessment . --- multilingualism. --- Swedish speakers --- Immersion method --- Swedish language --- English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Sweden --- English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Swedish speakers --- Language arts (Secondary) - Correlation with content subjects - Sweden --- English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Immersion method --- Language and education - Sweden

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This book examines one-way foreign language immersion education in the United States. It provides a clear and rich description of a Chinese (Mandarin) immersion program, its curriculum, instructional materials, assessment activities, parental involvement and student outcomes. The author analyses two studies that document the development of the students’ reading skills in English and Chinese, and the progress of their vocabulary knowledge, lexical inference, and reading comprehension in Chinese. In addition, this book contextualizes the program in its eco-system, including its neighbourhood, school, and the school district, and discusses the importance of school leadership, parental involvement, neighbourhood support and language acquisition planning in making an innovative school program successful. Its concluding chapters offer recommendations for program- and classroom-level practices and suggest pathways for future research on biliteracy learning in Chinese one-way immersion programs. This book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of applied linguistics, second language acquisition and language education. Chan Lü is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics in Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, USA.

Chinese language. --- English language. --- Applied linguistics. --- Language and languages. --- Multilingualism. --- South Asian Languages. --- Chinese. --- English. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Language Education. --- Asian Languages. --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Chinese language --- Study and teaching --- Immersion method. --- Language and education. --- Languages. --- Educational linguistics --- Education