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What is Bilingual/Two-Way Immersion Program

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International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
A language learning program, popular in the United States of America, where two languages are used for classroom instruction where L1 is the students’ first language and L2 is the students’ second language or the target language to be acquired through peer/teacher interaction while integrating both students of the minority language and students from the majority language in the same classroom. The ultimate goal of this program is to reach academic excellence and create successful bilingual/bicultural language speakers.
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Dealing With Language Gap in a Hungarian-English Early Childhood Classroom
Eva Csillik (New York City Department of Education, USA) and Irina Golubeva (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1219-7.ch011
Abstract
The term ‘translanguaging' has been widespread in the field of Applied Linguistics in a short period of time, and just as quickly, it infiltrated in the field of Multilingual Education. Translanguaging is mostly seen as an opportunity to build on multilingual speakers' full language repertoire in the classroom in order to make sense of the world around them. At the same time, translanguaging might be seen as a threat for heritage language survival because heritage languages are forced to immerse in the mainstream language(s). The authors observed pedagogical translanguaging practices in the AraNY János Hungarian Kindergarten and School (USA) to understand how English was used in teaching the heritage language and to discover how bridging existing language gaps between speakers worked in the practices of bilingual pedagogues. The overarching aim of this study was to reveal some of the pedagogical translanguaging strategies used to deal with occurring language gaps.
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