"H Schinske" wrote in message
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| Sharon ) wrote:
|
| I can't see how working so much in another language can possibly boost
the
| English reading test scores. To the extent getting into a good college
| requires good standardized test scores, I probably wouldn't consider it
for
| my girls.
|
| I'd have said standardized test scores in English correlate far, far more
with
| leisure reading habits than they do with any instructional method
whatsoever.
| If anything, being literate in two languages would be extraordinarily
helpful.
| Latin was immensely helpful on the verbal SAT, and French would have been
| nearly as much so.

Wouldn't it be an a priori reasonable assumption that the English language
vocabulary of student's taught entirely in English would be larger that that
for student's who have a lot of their subject instruction in another
language? Vocabulary is an important part of the verbal SAT. Students who
are fluent in a second language will ace the AP language exam but how will
they do on reading and math tests given in English?

(snip)

| The main thing, however, is whether the teaching is any good. The folks
I've
| heard complaining about particular French-language schools in Canada have
been
| complaining about the quality of the schools, full stop, not about the
language
| part. But that's not relevant to the OP.

It seems to me the situation in the French immersion schools here would be
hopelessly conflated between "quality of the school" and "intrinsic merit of
French immersion when trying to test into top-tier schools." If it wasn't
then they would be publishing the reading and math scores. Why don't they
even publish the math scores I wonder? Perhaps its related the fact that
math is taught in French yet is being tested (later) in English? I don't
know.

Why do you think the French Immersion public schools grade schools don't
publish the standardized test scores?

--
sharon, momma to savannah and willow (11/11/94)