Immersion Education

The wide range of languages and purposes now served by immersion worldwide is illustrated by case studies of thirteen programs. Immersion, a relatively new approach to bilingual education, originated in Canada. It uses the target language as a medium of instruction in order to achieve "additive bilingualism" -- a high level of second language proficiency. The wide range of languages and purposes now served by immersion worldwide is illustrated by case studies of thirteen programs presented and discussed in this paperback edition. The introductory chapter defines immersion education theory and practice and shows how this approach differs from other forms of bilingual education.

1 Immersion: A Category within Bilingual Education
SECTION 1 IMMERSION IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
2 Immersion in Eastern Europe: A Hungarian EFL Experiment
3 Benowa High: A Decade of French Immersion in Australia
SECTION 2 IMMERSION FOR MAJORITY LANGUAGE STUDENTS IN A MINORITY LANGUAGE
4 “
Late, Late Immersion,”
or Discipline-based Second Language Teaching at the University of Ottawa
5 Immersion in Finland in the 1980s: A State of Development and Expansion
SECTION 3 IMMERSION FOR LANGUAGE REVIVAL
6 Indigenous Language Immersion in Hawaii: A Case Study of Kula Kaiapuni Hawaii
SECTION IV Immersion for Language Support
7 The Catalan Immersion Program
8 Reflections on Immersion Education in the Basque Country
SECTION V IMMERSION IN A LANGUAGE OF POWER
9 The Hong Kong Education System: Late Immersion Under Stress
10 Immersion in Singapore Preschools
11 The Molteno Project: A Case Study of Immersion for English-Medium Instruction in South Africa
SECTION 6 LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE AND NEW DIRECTIONS
12 Lessons from U.S. Immersion Programs: Two Decades of Experience
13 Innovations in Immersion: The Key School Two-Way Bilingual Model
14 From Semantic to Syntactic Processing: How Can We Promote It in the Immersion Classroom?

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