1 / 13

Trilingual Education

Trilingual Education. Daniela Puga. Purpose of this Study. To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching an L2 and L3 simultaneously vs. sequentially in various education systems. Simultaneous. Cognitive Advantages Performance on English tests Content based instruction. Examples.

pomona
Download Presentation

Trilingual Education

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Trilingual Education Daniela Puga

  2. Purpose of this Study To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching an L2 and L3 simultaneously vs. sequentially in various education systems.

  3. Simultaneous • Cognitive Advantages • Performance on English tests • Content based instruction

  4. Examples • Philippines • English • Filipino • Ilokano • Spanish • Brunei Darussalam • Indigenous language • English • Bahasa Malay • Luxembourg • Luxembourger • German • French

  5. Sequential • More focus on the L1 • Cultural benefits • May enhance the development of language learning strategies

  6. Examples • Basque Country • Basque • Spanish • English • Guatemala • Various Mayan languages • Spanish • English • Namibia • Local languages • English • German, French or Latin

  7. Luxembourg • Monolingual by birth • Luxembourger is medium of instruction Kindergarten and first year • Germangrades 1-6 • French is introduced in grade 2

  8. European SchoolBrussels • Emphasis on L1 • Emphasis on multiculturalism and multilingualism. • Kindergarten: L1 is medium of instruction for most of primary education • L2 is taught as a subject from grades 1-5 • Secondary School • L1 & L2 • Grade 8—L3 is introduced

  9. Canadian multilingual schools • English, French, Hebrew • English is native language • Great Jewish community • Delayed second language instruction • Double immersion

  10. Canada cont. • Early Double immersion: all curricular instruction from K-3 or 4 is in French and Hebrew. No English • In Delayed double immersion: English along with French and Hebrew were used for curriculum instruction from the beginning of schooling

  11. Achievement sores on three standardized tests for Luxembourg, the European School, and Canada immersion pupils.French as L2

  12. Results • Diverging programs can attain comparable results. • BaetensBeardsmore: even complex language learning environments can cope with bilingualism in education • No single model. • Success stories like Canadian immersion take blue-print in circumstances where they do not satisfy local needs. • In most cases simultaneous instruction is as effective as sequential instruction

  13. Future Works • Teacher Qualifications • Native Speaking Instructors • Application to the US?

More Related