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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

An Analytical Study of Factors for the Success of Immersion Education in Canada

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15520360
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionNaruto University of Education

Principal Investigator

ITO Harumi  Naruto University of Education, Faculty of School Education, Professor, 学校教育学部, 教授 (90176355)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
KeywordsCanada / second language education / immersion education / success of immersion education / factors for immersion success / questionnaires for success factors / official languages policy / curriculum
Research Abstract

The research focused on immersion education in Canada, which has been attracting more and more attention from those involved in second language education around the world because of its outstanding success in fostering high-level communicative competence in a second language at no cost of content learning. The main purpose was to define the successfulness of French immersion education from quantitative and qualitative perspectives and then specify factors which have contributed to the success. Those contributing factors were identified on pedagogical, institutional, and societal levels respectively. On a pedagogical level, the research has identified methodological factors, teacher factors and learner factors. On an institutional level, the research has identified environmental factors, curriculum factors, and administrative factors. On a societal level, the research has identified the linkage with the official languages policy, the collaboration network for this linkage, and social incentives for French language learning as major societal factors. The research has also analysed stakeholders' perceptions about French immersion education and its success through questionnaires and interviews with four groups of people (parents, former students, headmasters, and researchers) who were or had been involved in immersion education directly or indirectly. The analysis has revealed that those involved in immersion education are very much satisfied with immersion education programmes and French proficiency learners have acquired, that this satisfaction is higher among researchers and lower among parents, that this satisfaction is higher in the domain of cognitive achievement and is lower in the domain of affective achievement, and that stakeholders' positive perceptions play a significant role in the circulatory process between micro-level success and macro-level success.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2006 2004 2003

All Journal Article (12 results)

  • [Journal Article] Stakeholders' views of the success of French immersion education in Canada2006

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      三浦省五先生退職記念論文集(広島大学) (分担執筆)(未定)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Stakeholders' views of the success of French Immersion education in Canada.2006

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      Papers in Honour of Professor MIURA Shogo (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] カナダでのイマージョン教育の成功実態と成功要因の分析 -関係者に対する意識調査を中心に-2004

    • Author(s)
      伊東治己
    • Journal Title

      カナダ研究年報(日本カナダ学会) 第24号

      Pages: 1-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Canadian immersion education in an evaluative perspective2004

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      鳴門教育大学研究紀要 第19巻

      Pages: 137-150

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Parental evaluative perceptions of immersion education in Canada2004

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      JACET Bulletin No.39

      Pages: 123-135

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] An analysis of successfulness and factors for success of immersion education in Canada.2004

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      The Annual Review of Canadian Studies No.24

      Pages: 1-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Canadian immersion education in an evaluative perspective.2004

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      Research Bulletin of Naruto University of Education Vol.19

      Pages: 137-150

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Parental evaluative perceptions of immersion education in Canada.2004

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      JACET Bulletin No.39

      Pages: 123-135

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] カナダの公用語政策と第二言語教育の連携の背景と実際2003

    • Author(s)
      伊東治己
    • Journal Title

      カナダ研究年報(日本カナダ学会) 第23号

      Pages: 1-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Accountability in Second Language Education in a Canadian Perspective2003

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      四国英語教育学会紀要 第23号

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Background and current state of the linkage between Canada's official language policy and second language education.2003

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      The Annual Review of Canadian Studies No.23

      Pages: 1-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Accountability in second language Education in a Canadian Perspective.2003

    • Author(s)
      ITO Harumi
    • Journal Title

      Research Bulletin of Shikoku English Language Education Society No.23

      Pages: 1-10

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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