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American
Council on Immersion Education (ACIE) Newsletter Articles
Online Archive
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Thematic Issues |
As of 2002, the
ACIE Newsletter has published theme-specific issues each May.
Theme issues facilitate the exploration of a topic from a
variety of practitioner perspectives and in greater depth.
Note: All of The Bridge and Thematic Issues
articles are in PDF format (requires Acrobat
Reader).
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The Bridge:
From Research to Practice |
Educational research
is vital to validating effective practices, challenging ineffective
ones, and encouraging innovations. Yet research is only valuable
if teachers read and implement findings in their classrooms.
The Bridge feature
is included as an insert to encourage teachers to collect
them for future reference. We hope this pull-out insert will
help immersion teachers stay abreast of the latest research
and allow it, when applicable, to affect their own practice.
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Best Practices |
Sharing ideas that
work is the emphasis of this regular feature. Program administrators
can learn about school-wide initiatives that promote immersion
principles. Classroom teachers can read about tried and true,
practical instructional techniques that they might adopt for
their classrooms.
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Immersion 101 |
If we peel back
the layers that currently envelop immersion schools, what
might we find at the core? In this column we will share with
readers basic principles behind successful immersion programs,
and show how challenges have been met at the classroom, school,
and district level.
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Points for Parents |
Parents often are
looking for a place to access ideas about how to support their
children’s education. Immersion parents who may or may
not be fluent in the language their child is learning at school
have many questions and concerns.
In this regular feature, we offer concrete
suggestions for extracurricular support of language learning.
In addition, we address specific parent concerns and invite
parents to share their experience and expertise.
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School Profiles |
There has been dramatic
growth in the number of immersion programs during the last
decade. More and more communities have chosen to support this
educational option, whose benefits to students are well documented.
In this feature we spotlight immersion schools and explore
factors that make each one unique.
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Research Reports |
In an effort to
push the edge of what we currently know about learning, researchers
continue to design and publish new studies on issues important
to immersion education. Keeping up to date with current research
is a time-consuming task.
This regular feature
will help inform the immersion education public about recent
research by providing our readers with brief summaries of
selected studies.
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Guest Editorials |
This features provides
anyone interested in immersion education with an opportunity
to voice your thoughts and concerns.
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Techno
Tips |
Technology and
second language education are a natural match, as both enable
us to explore our world more directly. Technology and second
language education are a natural match, as both enable us
to explore our multilingual world more directly. In this column,
Techno Tips, we highlight successful applications of technology
in and around the immersion classroom.
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