Language Immersion Implemented for Success in an Urban Setting
Term
Summer 8-8-2014
Capstone
Thesis
Degree Name
MAEd
Primary Advisor/Dissertation Chair
Le Roy Chappell
Secondary Advisor/Reader One
Gaelle Berg
Peer-Reviewer/Reader Two
Nathan Lee
Abstract
The research question addressed in this project was: how would urban immersion education experts describe factors that make their immersion program successful? It documents interviews with three school leaders of immersion programs in urban areas whose schools are serving a majority of students of color and who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and whose students outperform their local peers on state standardized testing in English Reading and Math. It connects school leader responses to two bodies of literature: successful implementation of immersion programs (primarily taken from Cloud, Genesee & Hamayan 2000) and meta-research into achievement gapclosing classroom strategies (as organized and analyzed by Boykin and Noguera 2011). Analysis of interviews reveal that all three school leaders cite adult collaborations, classroom-based factors (including, but not limited to careful development of bi-literacy and bilingualism), and the immersion model as reasons for their success.
Keywords
At-risk Students, Foreign Language
Recommended Citation
Maynor, Christina Elizabeth, "Language Immersion Implemented for Success in an Urban Setting" (2014). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations. 7.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_all/7