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Language Immersion Education: A research agenda for 2015 and beyond
Edited by Diane J. Tedick and Siv Björklund
[Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2] 2014
► pp. 241–256

Program design and two-way immersion programs

| University of Florida

Two-way immersion (TWI) programs have provided an effective bilingual alternative to monolingual approaches to educating language minority students. This article reviews the research related to two program design questions: are TWI programs effective for different groups of students within the program and what role does school context play in the program’s effectiveness?

Keywords: program evaluation, secondary immersion, program design, two-way immersion
Published online: 12 September 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.2.2.06jon
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