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"Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism and Beyond"(international conference)

 

 

 

 

  • Thematic framework: Education
  • Geographical outreach: International
  • Types of project: Disseminating information

  • Beneficiary countries:
    - plenarists: from the U.S., Canada, and Hong Kong
    - participants: from around the world;
    - United States

  • Main responsible:
    Tara Fortune
    CARLA, University of Minnesota 
    271 19th Ave So.
    Minneapolis, MN
    United States

Summary of the activities
Language immersion education has emerged as a uniquely constituted, highly effective program model for launching students on the road to bilingualism, multilingualism and intercultural competence.
Schoolbased immersion programs follow a variety of paths, including one-way foreign language immersion, twoway bilingual immersion, and indigenous immersion for language and culture revitalization.
While each pathway targets distinct socio-cultural contexts and educational needs, all are grounded in a set of core characteristics with a strong focus on subject matter learning as well as language development.

Under the leadership of two national centers in the U.S., this third international conference on immersion education brings these pathways together to engage in meaningful dialogue and professional exchange across languages, levels, learner audiences, program models and sociopolitical contexts.

The conference will feature the following internationally known speakers: Fred Genesee (McGill University, Canada); Philip
Hoare (Hong Kong Institute of Education); Kauanoe Kamanā and Bill "Pila" Wilson (University of Hawai'i); Roy Lyster (McGill University, Canada); and Myriam Met (National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland).


Main partners
CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota) and CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.)

  • Start Date: 16-10-2008   End Date: 18-10-2008
  • Lead Organization / Sector / Office: CARLA, University of Minnesota