The United States Department of Education awarded funds to the Second/Foreign and Bilingual Education Area in the Department of Learning and Instruction and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education in the Graduate School of Education to conduct a study of a Chinese culture and to implement a Mandarin immersion program starting in […]
The United States Department of Education awarded funds to the Second/Foreign and Bilingual Education Area in the Department of Learning and Instruction and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education in the Graduate School of Education to conduct a study of a Chinese culture and to implement a Mandarin immersion program starting in the academic year of 2013. This project is collaborative venture with the UB Confucius Institute and Capital Normal University in Beijing. Five (5) foreign language pre-service teachers and five (5) educators in the field of foreign languages and international studies will participate in the project. The study is grounded in socio-cognitive theory of language development and will investigate participants’ linguistics, cognitive and cultural gains. The researchers will assess the study’s design for replicating it in the future.
