Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Supporting Oral Second Language Use: A Learning Experience in a First Grade German Immersion Class

  • Practical Article
  • Published:
Early Childhood Education Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This article describes a learning context in which the first grade classroom teacher creates a learning community where she uses different teaching strategies to encourage children’s second language use and learning. The first graders share, discuss, and learn both the second language (German) and content.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Curtain, H. A. (2000). Milwaukee German immersion school. The ACIE (American Council of Immersion Education) Newsletter, 3(3), 1–4

    Google Scholar 

  • Enright, D. S., & McClouskey, M. L. (1985). Yes, Talking!: Organizing the classroom to promote second language acquisition. TESOL Quarterly, 19(3), 431–453.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Genesee, F. (1994). Introduction. In J. C. Richards (Series Ed.) & F. Genesee (vol. Ed.), Educating second language children: The whole child, the whole curriculum, the whole community (pp. 1–12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

  • Mountain, L. H. (1999). Early 3 Rs: How to lead beginners into reading, writing, and arithme-talk. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates

    Google Scholar 

  • Sears, C. (1998). Second language students in mainstream classrooms: A handbook for teachers in international schools.Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd

    Google Scholar 

  • Swain, M. (1996). Integrating language and content in immersion classrooms: Research perspectives. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 52, 529–548

    Google Scholar 

  • Swain, M., & Lapkin, S. (1998). Interaction and second language learning of adolescent French immersion students working together. Modern Language Journal , 82, 320–337.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tedick, D. J., Jorgensen, K., & Geffert, T. (2001). Content-based language instruction: The foundation of language immersion education. The ACIE (American Council of Immersion Education) Newsletter, 4(3), 1–8.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wood, M. (1999). Essentials of elementary language arts. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Boğaziçi University,  ,  

    Sumru Akcan

Authors
  1. Sumru Akcan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Akcan, S. Supporting Oral Second Language Use: A Learning Experience in a First Grade German Immersion Class. Early Childhood Educ J 32, 359–364 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-005-0005-7

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-005-0005-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation