Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program

• Main Author: Lü, Chan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Chinese language.; English language.; Applied linguistics.; Language and education.; Multilingualism.; Languages.; Language and languages.; Chinese.; English.; Applied Linguistics.; Language Education.; Asian Languages.

This book examines one-way foreign language immersion education in the United States. It provides a clear and rich description of a Chinese (Mandarin) immersion program, its curriculum, instructional materials, assessment activities, parental involvement and student outcomes. The author analyses two...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: One-way Immersion and Mandarin Immersion in the United States
• Chapter 3: Theoretical framework, literature review, and the current project
• Chapter 4: Pacific Elementary School
• Chapter 5: Chinese language, orthography, and learning to read
• Chapter 6: Properties of School Chinese
• Chapter 7: Oral language, phonological awareness, word reading and passage reading comprehension in Grade 2
• Chapter 8: Morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, lexical inference and text comprehension in Chinese in Grade 3
• Chapter 9: Implications for Chinese literacy learning and instruction in Chinese OWI programs: A proposal
• Chapter 10: Recommendation for program-level practices and future research agenda.