Directions in bilingual education
Finnish comprehensive schools in perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12114067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tuija Helle (Åbo Akademi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-219 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0802-6106 • E-ISSN: 1473-4192 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1473-4192.1994.tb00063.x |
| OpenAlex | W1974438340 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Bilingual education is starting to be regarded as a viable option in promoting language skills in the mainstream comprehensive‐school system in Finland. The current interest in education via a second language has created Canadian‐type immersion programs and numerous experimental projects in several languages. After a brief discussion about the immersion concept in the European context, the article focuses on illustrating this current trend in Finnish comprehensive schools, seeking to answer the question “What are these programs like?” The article concludes with a discussion about the inevitable problems and challenges related to the programs
Bilingual education · Context (archaeology · Geography · Mainstream · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Artificial Intelligence
Bilingual education of children
Making sense of the Australian French immersion classroom
The Catalan immersion program
Directions in immersion research
A two‐phase‐didactics for school
Ritualised routines and L2 acquisition
European models of bilingual education
Designing bilingual education
French immersion in Canada
| Highly cited | No |
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