Effects of two way immersion of the ethnic identification of third language students: An exploratory study

From: Bilingual Research Journal | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

While two-way immersion programs have been shown to be very effective for both language majority and language minority students, their effectiveness with students who speak a home language other than those used in the classroom has not been established. Since the inclusion of such third language students in two-way immersion programs is rare, little is known about whether the effects might be positive or negative. However, a Korean/English two-way immersion program implemented in Los Angeles which includes several speakers of Spanish and Tagalog presented a rare research ...

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