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Bilingual Language Proficiency - A Comparative Study. Dissertationsschrift

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book investigates the role native language plays in the process of acquiring a second language within a bilingual educational model. The research presented is based on a 2-year longitudinal study of students in a bilingual school. Particular attention is paid to the development of academic language proficiency. Performance in both languages was compared between two groups of peers learning in submersion classes in Germany and in Portugal. This comparison allows the assessment of effects of a given bilingual education programme.

There is a considerable advantage found for the students who learned in the bilingual environment, both in written and in oral samples. These students developed a more proficient bilingual academic discourse ability; socioeconomic status and cognitive abilities were controlled for. When comparing the results with an external measure for school achievement, the advantage was confirmed. The results also hint at didactic factors which seem to contribute to this performance.

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Joana Duarte studied modern linguistics and literature at the Universities of Lisbon and Athens, and completed a Masters of Intercultural Education at the University of Hamburg. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for International and Intercultural Comparative Education at Hamburg University.

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Bilingual language proficiency: A comparative study represents a paradigm shift in bilingualism and multilingualism research par excellence. - Ali Ait Si Mhamed auf: springerlink.de

Product details

Authors Joana Duarte
Publisher Waxmann Verlag GmbH
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 19.04.2011
 
EAN 9783830923176
ISBN 978-3-8309-2317-6
No. of pages 320
Weight 460 g
Series Interkulturelle Bildungsforschung
Subject Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system

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