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Are French Immersion Programs Suitable for Working-Class Children? A Follow-up Investigation

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  • G. Richard Tucker, Wallace E. Lambert, and Alison d'Anglejan, “French Immersion Programs: A Pilot Investigation,” Language Sciences, XXV (1973), 19–26.
  • See Henri C. Bank and Merrill Swain, “Bilingual Education Project: Interim Report on the Spring 1972 Testing Programme,” mimeographed (Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1972); H. P. Edwards and C. Casserly, “Interim Report of the Research and Evaluation of the French Program,” in mimeo (Ottawa: Ottawa Roman Catholic School Board, 1971); and Wallace E. Lambert and G. Richard Tucker, Bilingual Education of Children: The St. Lambert Experiment (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1972).
  • See C. Bereiter and S. Englemann, Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Preschool (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966).
  • See, for example, Margaret Bruck and G. Richard Tucker, “Social Class Differences in the Acquisition of School Language,” Merrill Palmer Quarterly, XX (1974), 205–220.
  • Wallace E. Lambert and J. Macnamara, “Some Cognitive Consequences of Following a First-grade Curriculum in a Second Languge,” Journal of Educational Psychology, LX (1969), 86–96.
  • Wallace E. Lambert, M. Just, and N. Segalowitz, “Some Cognitive Consequences of Following the Curricula of Grades One and Two in a Foreign Language,” Georgetown Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics, XXIII (1970), 229–279.
  • See Lambert and Tucker, pp. 25–27.
  • See Tucker, Lambert, and d'Angelejan, pp. 19–26.
  • See Lambert and Tucker (n. 2 above).
  • See B. R. Blishen, “The Construction and Use of an Occupational Class Scale,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, XXIV (1958), 453–458.
  • For comparable information on the Pilot Class in Grade 1, see Tucker, Lambert, and d'Anglejan, p. 19.
  • For a detailed description of these subtests, see Tucker, Lambert, and d'Anglejan, pp. 20–21.
  • For a detailed description of these subtests, see Lambert, Just, and Segalowitz, pp. 245–246.
  • Discussed in L. M. Dunn, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Tennessee: American Guidance Service, 1959).
  • In H. Osser, “Language Development in Children,” in Psychology and Educational Practice, ed. G. S. Lesser (Glenview, III.: Scott, Foresman, 1971).
  • See J. C. Raven, Coloured Progressive Matrices: Sets A, Ab, B (London: Lewis, 1956).
  • See Courtney B. Cazden, Childhood language and Education (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972).

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