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Publication details [#56745]

Vaish, Viniti. 2012. Teacher beliefs regarding bilingualism in an English medium reading program. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (1) : 53–69.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | foreign language acquisition | foreign language teaching | language of instruction | reading, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study reveals that English teachers in a Singaporean early intervention reading program believe in an immersion approach but, ironically, also think that L1 can help in teaching and acquiring English. Thus beliefs on immersion and bilingualism overlap.