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What is DLI (Dual Language Immersion) Program in the US

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Handbook of Research on Assessment Practices and Pedagogical Models for Immigrant Students
A special type of bilingual education that aims to sustain heritage language learners’ heritage language and promote their English language learning simultaneously. Students are taught literacy and subject content in both heritage language and English.
Published in Chapter:
A Comparative Study on the Curriculum in the Community-Based Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) Schools and Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program
Shizhan Yuan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 58
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9348-5.ch009
Abstract
This chapter compares and contrasts the curriculum, pedagogy, instructional materials, and extracurricular activities in a community-based CHL school and a Chinese-English DLI program in a southeast state of the US to discern how each is promoting Chinese immigrant children's heritage language and cultural learning. The author also explored how each school was supported by the local community. The result of this study indicates that the curriculum of the community-based CHL school was more focusing on teaching heritage culture as well as the reading and writing of Chinese words. In the Chinese-English DLI program, its cultural study curriculum in the social studies classes was more focused on the US citizenship education. However, in the social studies classes, teachers in the DLI program were able to integrate more Chinese literacy learning activities into the subject content instruction.
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