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A Study Of The Chinese Language Immersion Program In San Francisco: The First Two Years, Winifred Sin Ling Tang
A Study Of The Chinese Language Immersion Program In San Francisco: The First Two Years, Winifred Sin Ling Tang
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors important to the establishment of a Chinese language immersion program in San Francisco, parent motivations and attitudes toward the program, and the impact of the program on student achievement. Descriptive data collected on the 1st and 2nd year of program implementation included summaries of interviews with school personnel, information from documents of the San Francisco Unified School District, tabulations of parent questionnaire responses, and scores from a kindergarten skills inventory and Cantonese Language Skills Test. The comparative portion of the study included an analysis of CTBS-S scores of the program …