Video about Louisiana Immersion

From LPB: Parlez-Vous ? Some Louisiana Pupils Being Immersed in French Instruction

Starting an Elementary Immersion Programs

1. Starting an Elementary Immersion Program: 60/40 Immersion Plan

2. Starting an Elementary Immersion Program: 66/33 Immersion Plan

3. Starting an elementary immersion program double of each grade no FATS: 50/50 Immersion Plan

4. Starting an elementary immersion program with two grade levels no FATS: 50/50 Immersion Plan

Administration of an Immersion Program

• Guide for Administrators: Elementary-Level World Language and Immersion Programs 

• Model of French Immersion Parent Contract: Modeled after Lafayette Parish, LDOE

• The Bridge: From Research to practice: Top Ten Responsabilities of a Succesful Immersion Administrator

• Alberta Education - Handbook for French Immersion Administrators

  
  

Research and Resources about Teaching Foreign Language in Immersion U.S. Schools

• Louisiana Consortium of Immersion Schools:  Presentation and Goals

• Language, Identity and the Achievement Gap:

 Comparing Experiences of African-American Students in a French Immersion and a Regular Education Context

• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL): Directory of Foreign Language Immersion Programs in U.S. Schools (Useful links)

• CAL: Directory of Two-Ways Immersion Programs
  

• The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) : Articulation of Language Instruction