PSYC 341 Study Guide - Bilingual Education, Middle French, Meta-Analysis
22 Mar 2014
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Languages is an issue of considerable personal, socio-cultural, economic, and political significance: growing globalization of business and commerce. Challenged to learn other languages to remain competitive. Need for proficiency in english as a lingua franca on the internet. Internet has also created the possibility much greater communication in regional languages. E. g. non-academic content: other end of the continuum, where content and language are equally important mastery of academic objectives is considered as important as the development of proficiency in the target language. Promote national langs in countries with one official lang, but students who speak a variety of other langs. Promote proficiency in important regional and/or world languages. Language development and academic achievement: most extensive body of research with these foci has been conducted in canada or. French immersion programs for english speaking students in different regions of the country, starting in 1965 with lambert and tucker"s pioneering evaluation of st. lambert.
