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Building English competencies in bilingual underachievers: A baseline study of Singapore's learning support program
Citation
Vaish, V., & Shilpi Tripathi. (2011). Building English competencies in bilingual underachievers: A baseline study of Singapore's learning support program (Report No. OER 28/08 VV). National Institute of Education (Singapore), Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice.
Abstract
"This project is a baseline study of Singapore's Learning Program (LSP) which is an intervention program in primary schools with the main objective of helping students who do not have adequate competencies in English language and literacy to cope with the mainstream curriculum. The LSP is comparable to the other compensatory programs in the USA such as Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE), two way bilingual educations (TWBE), pull out ESL programs and the funds of knowledge intervention program in the UK. All these compensatory programs have a leveling up a goal in which they try to bring underachievers to the same level of their mainstream peers. The broad objectives of the project are to document what goes on in the LSP, how the Learning Support Co-ordinator teaches, who is sent in, who is sent out and what Learning Support Co-ordinators believe about bilingualism."--executive summary.
Date Issued
2011
Call Number
LB1028.25.S55 C77 2011/28
Description
Note: Restricted to NIE staff
Project
OER 28/08 VV