Evaluation of Bilingual Secondary Education in the Netherlands: Students' Language Proficiency in English

Autor/inn/en	Admiraal, Wilfried; Westhoff, Gerard; de Bot, Kees
Titel	Evaluation of Bilingual Secondary Education in the Netherlands: Students' Language Proficiency in English
Quelle	In: Educational Research & Evaluation, 12 (2006) 1, S.75-93 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1380-3611
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Indo European Languages; Language of Instruction; Reading Comprehension; Secondary Education; Language Proficiency; Bilingual Education; English (Second Language); Program Evaluation; Academic Achievement; Comparative Analysis; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Indoeuropäisch; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Leseverstehen; Sekundarbereich; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schulleistung; Niederlande
Abstract	In this longitudinal study, we examined the effects of the use of English as the language of instruction in the first 4 years of secondary education in The Netherlands on the students' language proficiency in English and Dutch, and achievement in subject matters taught through English. Compared to a control group in regular secondary education, students attending this form of bilingual education showed higher scores for their English language proficiency in terms of oral proficiency and reading comprehension. No effects have been found for receptive word knowledge and no negative effects have been found with respect to the results of their school leaving exams at the end of secondary education for Dutch and subject matters taught through English. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10