Obtained General Competence of Students in Language Immersion Classes

• Authors: Leida Talts , Airi Kukk , Maia Muldma
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

One of the key ideas of the language immersion methodology is to guarantee sustainable development for children from non-Estonian families in respect to their linguistic and social development. The most important conditions are creating flexible possibilities to participate in language immersion groups and classes and applying the language immersion methodology in everyday teaching process systematically. The present research seeks to highlight teachers' views on the sustainability of general competences of children who have completed the language immersion group in the kindergarten. The domain of general competences includes 32 sub-skills related to learning to learn and social skills, which were assessed by the teachers on a 5-point scale. For the sake of clear data analysis, the general competences have been divided into general competences fostering learning and learner-centred general competences. The present study showed that language immersion methodology favours applying child-centred pedagogy in the actual teaching process and supports the sustainability of children's linguistic and social development.

Keywords

EN

language immersion; general competence; sustainable development; teaching process; coping

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-96

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2011-02-21

Contributors

author

Leida Talts

• Tallinn University, Estonia

author

Airi Kukk

• Tallinn University, Estonia

author

Maia Muldma

• Tallinn University, Estonia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-009-0056-8