Immersion Education in the Early Years

ISBN-13: 9781138182899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 126 str.

Tina Hickey; Anne-Marie de Mejia

Opis

As more parents across the world choose immersion pre-schooling for their children, in order to benefit from its linguistic, educational, and cultural benefits, this book fulfils an urgent need to increase the recognition of the sector, and explore the challenges it faces. Contributors discuss the difference between monolingual and bilingual programmes, the importance of training in immersion methodology, the need to adapt existing pre-school pedagogy, and the need for differentiated provision in order to optimise the educational benefits for all. This book was published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Immersion education in the early years  1. Bilingual and biliteracy skills in young Spanish-speaking low-SES children: impact of instructional language and primary language proficiency  2. (Re)-introduction to French: four education models to revitalise an endangered group in Eastern Canada  3. Factors, processes and outcomes of early immersion education in the Francophone Community in Belgium  4. Swedish immersion in the early years in Finland  5. How deep is your immersion? Policy and practice in Welsh-medium preschools with children from different language backgrounds  6. Bilingual education for all: Latino dual language learners with language disabilities

O autorze

Tina Hickey is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published extensively on immersion education, bilingualism, first language acquisition of Irish, and reading in a second language. Awarded a Government of Ireland Senior Fellowship (2008), she has served as President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, and the Reading Association of Ireland, of which she was made an Honorary Lifetime Member (2011). She is the author of Early Immersion Education in Ireland (1997) and Luathoideacheas trí Ghaeilge sa Ghaeltacht (Early Education through Irish in the Gaeltacht) (1999). She is the editor of Language, Education and Society in a Changing World (with Jenny Williams, 1996), Literacy and Language Learning: Reading in a First or Second Language (2006), Learning to Read and Reading to Learn (with Eithne Kennedy, 2006), and Multilingual Europe: Diversity and Learning (with Charmian Kenner, 2008).

Anne-Marie de Mejía currently working at el Centro de Investigación y Formación en Educación (CIFE) at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, where she is the Director of the Ph.D Programme in Education. She was previously the Director of Postgraduate Programmes in the Linguistics Department of the School of Language Sciences at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Her research interests include bilingual classroom interaction, the construction of bilingual curricula and processes of empowerment, and bilingual teacher development. She is the author of a number of books in English and Spanish, including Power, Prestige and Bilingualism (2002), Forging Multilingual Spaces (with Christine Hélot, 2008), Empowering Teachers across Cultures (with Christine Hélot, 2011) and Bilingüismo en el Contexto Colombiano (with Beatriz Peña Dix and Alexis López, 2011).