Tea Time Thursday

Bilingual education as a systematic and continuously advancing process A lecture with Bernd Nuss, Ph.D., M.Ed., M.A, NBCT

The benefits of bilingual education are sufficiently researched and remain undisputed. Proficiency standard systems define effective instruction. Conventions on best practices are well established as are lesson plan adaptations. The connections between content and language acquisitions are broadly understood. Typical language deficits have also been documented along with general correction strategies.
Still missing are research-based concepts that lay out a cohesive, curricular articulation for a balanced language acquisition process in bilingual instruction. From a teacher’s perspective, such a vertically oriented concept would lead from reactive correction strategies to a proactive anticipation of developmental language issues. From a student’s perspective, the concept would consistently guide learners to self-reflective language awareness and to self-guided language growth competencies.
This all-encompassing vision of a vertical articulation is based on practical experiences and data collections in a multilingual immersion program in the USA. Experimentations with instructional planning and teaching strategies aim to implement a more purposeful, enduring language acquisition process.
The value of this vision and the transferability to German bilingual programs will be open to discussion at the end of the session.
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