Includes index.

Includes bibliographies.

1. Background of French Immersion

2. Effects of and Results of French Immersion

3. The Assumptions on which French Immersion is based

4. Various Attitudes Toward French Immersion

5. A Better Classroom Road to Bilingualism: General Principles

6. A Better Classroom Road to Bilingualism: Specific Pedagogical Principles

7. A Better Classroom Road to Bilingualism: More Pedagogical Principles and a Model

8. A Better Classroom Road to Bilingualism: Procedures and Techniques

9. Questions and Answers

10. Conclusions and Broader Implications

Appendix A: Interview Transcripts

Appendix B: Comments of an FI Graduate

Appendix C: Results of Standardized Test

"For many years French Immersion programs were thought to be the most effective way of producing bilingual speakers. In this book, Hector Hammerly shows that because French Immersion is based on incorrect assumptions about second language learning in the classroom, it is not producing bilinguals but speakers of English and "French", a mixture of French and English with frequent errors of the most basic kind. Dr. Hammerly discusses the immersion phenomenon in detail, explains why immersion does not and cannot work well in the classroom and proposes a better classroom road to bilingualism." (Back cover)