Life in Language Immersion Classrooms

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Buchter Bernhardt (Editor)

Publisher: Mulitlingual Matters, Ltd.
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 191
Series: Multilingual Matters, 86
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume chronicles a project that involved the staff and principals in the midwestern United States, in collaboration with a team of educational researchers. Included as chapters are qualitative studies of immersion teachers, analyses of the use of drama and children's literature, and discussions of staff preparation and maintenance for immersion schooling. Bernhardt has also published "Reading Development in a Second Language", based on her research with adult readers of a variety of second languages.

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