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Linguistic and metalinguistic outcomes of intense immersion education: how bilingual?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Hermanto, Nicola Moreno, Sylvain Bialystok, Ellen |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Anglophone children in Grades 2 and 5 who attended an intensive French immersion program were examined for linguistic and metalinguistic ability in English and French. Measures of linguistic proficiency (vocabulary and grammatical knowledge) were consistently higher in English and remained so even after five years of immersion education in French. Measures of metalinguistic ability (letter fluency and ignoring semantic anomalies in sentence judgments) in French improved significantly over the two grades studied and closed the gap (letter fluency) or caught up with (sentence judgments) similar performance in English. This dissociation between developmental trajectories for linguistic and metalinguistic development is exactly the pattern expected for fully bilingual children, endorsing immersion education as a route to bilingualism. |
| Related Links | http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3314398?pdf=render https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314398/pdf |
| Ending Page | 145 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 131 |
| ISSN | 13670050 |
| e-ISSN | 17477522 |
| DOI | 10.1080/13670050.2011.652591 |
| Journal | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2012-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Language Studies Bilingual Education Immersion Education Language Proficiency Metalinguistic Development |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Education Linguistics and Language |
