Quality in immersion-bilingual early years education for language acquistion final report. Skerrett, M. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 2011.
Quality in immersion-bilingual early years education for language acquistion final report [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The literature review aims to build on existing work commissioned by the Ministry of Education (MOE) relative to issues of bilingual and immersion education in Aotearoa New Zealand (May, Hill, & Tiakiwai, 2006; Meade, PuhiPuhi, & FosterCohen, 2003; Ministry of Education, 2004). It summarises and synthesises relevant empirical work on immersion and bilingual early childhood education (ECE) and into the early years of school or what has been termed early years education (EYE)4. The review evaluates the quality of these studies; and addresses questions about how quality bilingual and immersion early childhood education relates to ‗stronglanguage foundations‘ and ‗early school success‘. Knowledge gaps worthy of future research are also noted.

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