Volume 83 in the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Future of Immersion Education : An Invitation to 'Dwell in Possibility' / Diane J. Tedick, Donna Christian and Tara Williams Fortune

PART 1: PRACTICES IN IMMERSION PROGRAM DESIGN

2. Integrating Multiple Languages in Immersion: Swedish Immersion in Finland / Siv Björklund and Karita Mard-Miettinen

3. Insights from Indigenous Language Immersion in Hawai'i / William H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kamana

4. Two-Way Immersion Charter Schools: An Analysis of Program Characteristics and Student Body Compositions / Gary Zehrbach

PART 2 : PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE

5. Student Outcomes in Chinese Two-Way Immersion Programs: Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement and Student Attitudes / Kathryn Lindholm-Leary

6. The Same Outcomes for All? High-School Students Reflect on Their Two-Way Immersion Program Experiences / Ester J. de Jong and Carol I. Bearse

7. French Immersion Studies at the University of Ottawa: Programme Evaluation and Pedagogical Challenges / Sandra Burger, Alysse Weinberg, Carla Hall, Parvin Movassat and Amelia Hope

PART 3: LANGUAGE USE AND ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN IMMERSION PROGRAMS

8. I Thought That We Had Good Irish': Irish Immersion Students' Insights into Their Target Language Use / Padraig O. Duibhir

9. Talking in the Fifth-Grade Classroom: Language Use in an Early, Total Spanish Immersion Program / Maggie A. Broner and Diane J. Tedick

10. Using Language Assessment to Inform Instruction in Indigenous Language Immersion / Lizette Peter, Gloria Sly and Tracy Hirata-Edds

PART 4: POLICY AND PRACTICE IN IMMERSION EDUCATION

11. Context and Constraints: Immersion in Hong Kong and Mainland China / Philip Hoare

12. US Immigrants and Two-Way Immersion Policies: The Mismatch between District Designs and Family Experiences / Lisa M. Dorner

13. Struggling Learners and the Language Immersion Classroom / Tara Williams Fortune

CONCLUDING SYNTHESIS CHAPTER FOR THE VOLUME

14. Reflecting on Possibilities for Immersion / Fred Genesee

Index

"This volume builds on Fortune and Tedick’s 2008 Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education and showcases the practice and promise of immersion education through in-depth investigations of program design, implementation practices, and policies in one-way, two-way and indigenous programs. Contributors present new research and reflect on possibilities for strengthening practices and policies in immersion education. Questions explored include: What possibilities for program design exist in charter programs for both two-way and indigenous models? How do studies on learner outcomes lead to possibilities for improvements in program implementation? How do existing policies and practices affect struggling immersion learners and what possibilities can be imagined to better serve such learners? In addressing such questions, the volume invites readers to consider the possibilities of immersion education to enrich the language development and educational achievement of future generations of learners." (Book Cover)