Tsai Hsiao - Mei - Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book discusses multiple aspects of Chinese dual language immersion (DLI) programs with a focus on the controversial Utah model. The first part of the book focuses on the parents teachers and school administrators. It looks at the perceptions of the three groups toward the Utah model how they build a supportive DLI classroom with an emphasis on teacher teacher and teacher parent communication and how the teachers position themselves in teaching through their teacher identities. The second part of the book emphasizes classroom research and explores teaching and learning strategies corrective feedback and learner uptake and repair translanguaging in authentic teacher student interaction and Chinese - character teaching. As the first DLI book to include a non - alphabetical language Chinese it addresses the need for more research on DLI programs of languages other than Spanish. The book will benefit not only Chinese DLI educators and administrators in the US but will also offer some useful suggestions and thoughts to educators and administrators of similar programs worldwide.
Title: Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs
Author(s): Tsai Hsiao - Mei
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Barcode: 9781788928649
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2025
Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy