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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Rydland, Veslemøy; Aukrust, Vibeke Grøver; Fulland, Helene – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Immigrant students may use and develop language and literacy skills differently depending on the dominance of the first and second language (L1 and L2) in the neighborhoods where they live. In this study, neighborhood effects on students' reported language use at home and with peers, and on measured language and literacy proficiency, were…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Neighborhoods, Language Usage
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Hermanto, Nicola; Moreno, Sylvain; Bialystok, Ellen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
Anglophone children in Grades 2 and 5 who attended an intensive French immersion program were examined for linguistic and metalinguistic ability in English and French. Measures of linguistic proficiency (vocabulary and grammatical knowledge) were consistently higher in English and remained so even after 5 years of immersion education in French.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Immersion Programs, Metalinguistics, Semantics
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Block, Nicholas C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study examined how participation of Latino students in two-way dual immersion versus mainstream programs might have impacted students' relationships with Spanish-speaking adults, thus affecting contexts for students to develop resiliency. Participants were parents of 90 fifth- and sixth-grade students (initially English proficient [EP] as…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis, Spanish Speaking