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Academic Achievement in Bilingual and Immersion Education: TransAcquisition Pedagogy and Curriculum Design

Academic Achievement in Bilingual and Immersion Education: TransAcquisition Pedagogy and Curriculum Design

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This book discusses two innovative methods for teaching bilingual students: Transacquisition Pedagogy (TAP) and the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC Model). TAP uses flexible bilingualism and a task-sequenced approach, while the CDC Model connects academic knowledge and thinking processes. Both methods have been successful in improving academic achievement in bilingual, immersion, and mainstream education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


This book delves into two groundbreaking approaches for teachers of bilingual students to enhance their academic achievement. The first method, TransAcquistion Pedagogy (TAP), was developed by Tauwehe Sophie Tamati. It employs principles of flexible bilingualism and a task-sequenced approach. TAP's success in an intervention study in two New Zealand Māori schools showcases how cognitive and linguistic processes can be leveraged to enhance student conceptual understanding and improve their academic biliteracy.

Part two of the book introduces the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC Model), created by Elizabeth Rata. The CDC Model provides teachers with a framework for designing concepts, content, and competencies that seamlessly connect academic knowledge and thinking processes. The model's effectiveness has been demonstrated in the Knowledge-Rich School Project in New Zealand and England.

TAP and the CDC Model share a common goal of enhancing student learning. TAP operationalizes the CDC design method by incorporating it into teaching practices. The distinct usefulness of TAP and the CDC Model, as well as their alignment, offer a novel approach to education. When used together or separately, they provide invaluable teaching methods for bilingual, immersion, and mainstream education.

By incorporating these innovative methods into their teaching practices, educators can better support bilingual students' academic growth and help them achieve success in both their language and content-area learning.

Weight: 374g
Dimension: 159 x 242 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367741808

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