- Althoigh I am now retired, I enjoy keeping up to date on the literature that has to do with Vygotsky’s concept of per... moreAlthoigh I am now retired, I enjoy keeping up to date on the literature that has to do with Vygotsky’s concept of perezhivanie. I am convinced that we cannot understand human behaviour without a concept that see emotions and cognition as a dialectical unity, and that within an SCT perspective, the concept of perezhivanie is key to this understanding.edit
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Additive Bilingualism and French Immersion Education: The Roles of Language Proficiency and Literacy Merrill Swain Sharon Lapkin Ontario Institute for Studies in Education In 1975, Wallace Lambert introduced the terms" additive"... more
Additive Bilingualism and French Immersion Education: The Roles of Language Proficiency and Literacy Merrill Swain Sharon Lapkin Ontario Institute for Studies in Education In 1975, Wallace Lambert introduced the terms" additive" and" subtractive" bilingualism. He used the term ...
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Abstract: A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late... more
Abstract: A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late partial French immersion. The ...
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THE CAMBRIDGE APPLIED LINGUISTICS SERIES Series editors: Michael H. Long and Jack C. Richards This series presents the findings of recent work in applied linguistics which are of direct relevance to language teaching and learning and of... more
THE CAMBRIDGE APPLIED LINGUISTICS SERIES Series editors: Michael H. Long and Jack C. Richards This series presents the findings of recent work in applied linguistics which are of direct relevance to language teaching and learning and of particular interest to applied ...
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Abstract: A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late... more
Abstract: A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late partial French immersion. The ...
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26 The Output Hypothesis: Theory and Research Merrill Swain The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education The University of Toronto1 INTRODUCTION In the 1980s, the word" output" was used to indicate the outcome, or product, of... more
26 The Output Hypothesis: Theory and Research Merrill Swain The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education The University of Toronto1 INTRODUCTION In the 1980s, the word" output" was used to indicate the outcome, or product, of the language acquisition device. Output was ...
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This is a remarkably interesting and useful book...it makes a significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding of both bilingualism and education.' Journal of Education Policy
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In this introductory chapter, we attempt to differentiate immersion from other types of bilingual education programs. We do this by first discussing briefly the development of immersion programs in Canada and the use of the term for an... more
In this introductory chapter, we attempt to differentiate immersion from other types of bilingual education programs. We do this by first discussing briefly the development of immersion programs in Canada and the use of the term for an increasingly wide range of functions in different situations. Next we identify a set of core features, which we suggest are the defining characteristics of an immersion program. In actual programs, these features will be present to a greater or lesser degree, but all would be present in a prototypical immersion program. These features have implications for program development, teaching strategies, learning conditions, and learning outcomes. Next we consider a set of variable features, i.e., features that differ among immersion programs. These variable features have consequences for program outcomes. Finally, we pose some of the many questions that still need to be addressed in immersion research. Our claim, explicit in the title of this book, is that the term “immersion” can be legitimately and usefully applied beyond its purely historical origins in Canada to a wide range of programs despite differences in their aims, socioeconomic contexts, and manner of implementation. There is nothing new, of course, about using a second or foreign language as a medium of instruction. Throughout the history of formal education, the use of an L2 medium has been the rule rather than the exception (Lewis, 1976). Until the rise of nationalism, few languages other than those of the great empires, religions, and civilizations were considered competent or worthy to carry the content of a formal curriculum.
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ED214363 - Bilingual Education in Ontario: A Decade of Research. ... Bilingual Education in Ontario: A Decade of Research. ... Ontario Government Bookstore, 880 Bay Street, Toronto M7A 1L2 or Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,... more
ED214363 - Bilingual Education in Ontario: A Decade of Research. ... Bilingual Education in Ontario: A Decade of Research. ... Ontario Government Bookstore, 880 Bay Street, Toronto M7A 1L2 or Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Publication Sales, 252 Bloor St. West, ...
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... London: Longman. Lantolf, J. (2006). Sociocultural theory and L2 development: State-of-the-art. ... Page 14. 570 Merrill Swain and Wataru Suzuki McDonough, K. (2005). ... Seedhouse, P. (1997). The case of Missing No: The... more
... London: Longman. Lantolf, J. (2006). Sociocultural theory and L2 development: State-of-the-art. ... Page 14. 570 Merrill Swain and Wataru Suzuki McDonough, K. (2005). ... Seedhouse, P. (1997). The case of Missing No: The relationship between pedagogy and interaction. ...
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In this study we compare test takers’ performance on the Speaking section of the TOEFL iBTTM and their performances during their real-life academic studies. Thirty international graduate students from mixed language backgrounds in two... more
In this study we compare test takers’ performance on the Speaking section of the TOEFL iBTTM and their performances during their real-life academic studies. Thirty international graduate students from mixed language backgrounds in two different disciplines (Sciences and Social Sciences) responded to two independent and four integrated speaking tasks of the TOEFL iBT and participated in semistructured interviews. For the real-life academic contexts, we recorded the performances of our participants in one in-class and one out-of-class speaking activity. On the basis of an analysis of the participants’ speaking (examining grammatical, discourse, and lexical features), we demonstrate that there are some overlapping and some distinct differences in their performances across contexts. Our findings both support and raise questions about the extrapolation inference claim of the validity argument of the Speaking section of the TOEFL iBT.
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... shown in Table 3. The topics were adopted from 'writing topics' in TOEFL (Educational Testing ... revise the students' text to reflect target-language usage while preserving the students 'original meaning ... into... more
... shown in Table 3. The topics were adopted from 'writing topics' in TOEFL (Educational Testing ... revise the students' text to reflect target-language usage while preserving the students 'original meaning ... into the nature of pair work in an ESL classroom and its effect on grammatical ...
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EJ183541 - French Immersion: Early, Late or Partial?.
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OUR EXPERIENCE IN ADDRESSING AMERICAN audiences about Canadian French immersion programs has led us to approach our topic with considerable caution. To a large extent this has been because some American policy-makers and educators (eg,... more
OUR EXPERIENCE IN ADDRESSING AMERICAN audiences about Canadian French immersion programs has led us to approach our topic with considerable caution. To a large extent this has been because some American policy-makers and educators (eg, Baker and de Kanter) ...
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