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Bilingual Education Around The World: Practices And Perspectives At An Indonesian School, Rachel A. Rébert
Bilingual Education Around The World: Practices And Perspectives At An Indonesian School, Rachel A. Rébert
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Immersion programs are growing in popularity for their potential to promote second language development along with academic content instruction. While bilingual education can offer many benefits, it also comes with many challenges for effective implementation often resulting in students who lack high proficiency and communicative competence in one of the school languages. This research employed a case-study approach to explore issues of bilingual education in immersion model classrooms at an Indonesian school. Specifically, this study examined the instructional practices of teachers who are delivering academic content in English with a focus on language use, methods, and balancing content and language …