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- CARLA: Language Immersion Education Project - Immersion education is defined within CARLA's initiatives as the delivery of the curriculum in a second language to students who share the same first language. The project's objective is to improve immersion education by conducting research and by developing a national network of teachers involved in immersion.
- Integrating Language and Content: Lessons from Immersion - A selective review of research findings from the extensive evaluations that have been undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of immersion programs in Canada and the United States. It discusses implications of immersion research findings for second language programs in other school settings.
- Rubrics for Two-Way Immersion - Language arts assessment tools for dual language classrooms. (MS Word and WP formats)
- American Council on Immersion Education Newsletter - Dedicated to the interests and concerns of language immersion educators, administrators, researchers, and parents. Contains articles pertaining to best practices, parent communication, current research, and bridging research with classroom practice.
- Immersion Education for the Millenium: What we have learned in the last 30 years - A paper by Jim Cummins which describes the development of immersion language education.
- Tools for Schools - Two-Way Immersion Education - A good introductory article, covering the history, philosophy, and educational strategies behind successful dual-language instruction.
- Dual Language Education of New Mexico - This site is dedicated to issues surrounding the development and implementation of Dual Language programs in New Mexico and information on La Cosecha Conference 2002.
- Literacy in Two Languages: Best of Both Worlds - 64th IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings - The Two-Way Immersion Program at the L.A. Morgan Academy of Fine Arts, Galveston, Texas.
- Asymmetry in Dual Language Practice - Investigates a recently developed language program in its school context. Education Policy Analysis Archives. January, 2000.
- Two-Way Bilingual Education: Students Learning Through Two Languages - By Donna Christian, director of CAL's dual-language project.
Wikipedia Articles
- Amigos School - The Amigos School is a dual-language bilingual primary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Spanish-immersion program began in 1986 at the Maynard School and became an autonomous school within the Cambridge Public School District in 2001.
- Inter-American Magnet School - Inter-American Magnet School (IAMS) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive dual language (also known as two way immersion) schools in the Midwestern United States. One of few public schools to be founded by parents, the school currently serves approximately 600 ethnically and economically diverse preschool through 8th grade students from all over Chicago.