Life in Language Immersion Classrooms

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-1-85359-151-8
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

Life in Language Immersion Classrooms is a book about teachers and teaching. Specifically, it is about teaching language by means of immersion; i.e., when language is taught not as a subject, but rather as the medium through which content material is instructed. In contrast to other volumes on the subject of language immersion programmes that have discussed language outcomes, this edited volume focuses on how teachers and school administrators implement and carry on the daily business of immersion schooling. The volume chronicles a two-year research project that involved the staff and principals of two immersion schools in the midwestern United States, in collaboration with a team of educational researchers which included specialists in second language as well as in language arts teaching. The research on which the book is based was funded by the United States Department of Education. Included as separate chapters in the volume are two in-depth studies of immersion teachers: a study on the use of drama in the immersion classroom, and an analysis of the use of children's literature. In the latter half of the book are discussions on preparing and maintaining immersion school staff.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernhardt, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART 1: STUDIES OF IMMERSION TEACHERS

1. Ann Salomone: Immersion Teachers' Pedagogical Beliefs and Practices: Results of a Descriptive Analysis

2. Carolyn Mendez: How Many Wednesdays? A Portrait of Immersion Teaching through Reflection

PART 2: STUDIES OF IMMERSION CLASSROOMS

3. Deborah Wilburn: Learning through Drama in the Immersion Classroom

4. Janet Hickman: Whole Language and Literature in a French Immersion Elementary School

5. Ann Salomone: Student-Teacher Interactions in Selected French Immersion Classrooms

PART 3: PREPARING AND MAINTAINING STAFF FOR LANGUAGE IMMERSION CLASSROOMS

6. Elizabeth Bernhardt and Leslie Schrier: The Development of Immersion Teachers

7. Diane Ging: Meeting the Challenges of Immersion: The Role of the Foreign Language Supervisor

8. Roger Coffman: Immersion: A Principal's Perspective