Research

Facts and Figures

Discover Languages (from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

• What the Research Says

• Benefits of Language Learning

• Guidelines for Starting a Program

• Foreign-Language Advocacy
  

Top 10 Findings: Minority Language Learners in Two-way Immersion Programs

Top 10 Findings: Research on Foreign Language Immersion

Thomas and Collier’s “National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students’ Long-Term Academic Achievement”

MLA Language Map

Research Centers

CARLA (Immersion Education & Research)

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

Cognitive and Neuroscience Laboratory for Language and Child Development

The Mandarin Center

Field Leaders

Virginia Collier
Professor Emerita of Bilingual/Multicultural/ESL Education
George Mason University

Jim Cummins
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Fred Genesee
Professor of Psychology
McGill University

Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus of Education
University of Southern California

Kathryn Lindholm Leary
Professor of Child and Adolescent Development
San Jose State University

Bibliographies and Other Resources

Research on Elementary-School Programs (from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

The Modern Language Association’s Language Map: A Map of Languages in the United States

Morsmal: A Multilingual Information Portal and a Meeting Place for Bilingual Researchers, Teachers, Parents and Pupils (Norway)

Second Language Acquisition / Literacy Development Resources

International Mother Language Day: Links to UN and UN System Sites