美国华盛顿州国小阶段跨国移民学生之学习安置和语言-高等教育出版.PDF

85 20 18685- 123 美國華盛頓州國小階段跨國移民學生 之學習安置和語言支援制度 摘要 K-5 lium@.tw Bulletin of Educational Research June, 2018, Vol. 64 No. 2 pp. 85-123 A Study of the Academic Placement and Language Support Policy for Immigrant Students in an Elementary Public School of Washington State, U.S.A. Li-Ching Hung, Meihui Liu A b s t r a c t This study aims at exploring the implementation of the academic placement and language support policy for immigrant students in an elementary public school in Washington State, U.S.A. The study investigated an ethnographic case study of one K-5 elementary public school with a high degree of ethnic diversity among its students for 9 months. Multiple methods of data collection including participant observation, data analysis, and interviews were applied. The findings of this study are as follows: (1) Most of the English Language Development Programs for immigrant students in Washington State emphasized bicultural education approach and education for the exceptional and culturally different. (2) The implementation of immigrants’ academic Li-Ching Hung