Life in language immersion classrooms
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Life in language immersion classrooms
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 86）
Multilingual Matters, c1992
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 171-178
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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