Maire Kebbinau, Made PandisIntegration Foundation

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KEELEKÜMBLUPROGRAMM - LÕIMITUD AINE- JA KEELEÕPE

LANGUAGE IMMERSIONPROGRAM - CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING

INTEGRATSIOONI SIHTASUTUSTHE INTEGRATION FOUNDATION

Loodud 31. märtsil 1998. aastal Eesti Vabariigi Valitsuse poolt

Et algatada, toetada ja koordineerida Eesti ühiskonna integreerumisele suunatud projekte.

Integratsiooniprojekte rahastatakse erinevatest riigieelarvelistest allikatest ja välisvahenditest, sh Euroopa Liidu programmidest.

http://www.meis.ee/est

Established on 31 March 1998 by the Estonian government.

Initiating, supporting and coordinating projects designed to promote integration in Estonian society.

Projects are funded from the state budget as well as from external

sources, including those from EU programmes.

http://www.meis.ee/eng

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Estonian ethnicity

121 nations

65,2% Estonians

25,7% Russians

2,1% Ukrainians

1,2% Belarusians

0,8% Finns

Ukrainians 2008

Estonia re-established its independence in 1991. Its population is 1.34 million (Statistics Office, 2008). Estonian is the official state language.

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• Approximately 80% of students attend Estonian-medium schools

• 20% Russian-language schools.

• Both categories of schools follow the same national curriculum.

Estonian education system2008/2009

Total number of students inprimary school 116 254, gymnasium 31 265.

There are 90 690 students in Estonian language primary schools, this is 77,6% of all the students. In gymnasium the corresponding percentage is 80%.

There are 22 131 students in Russian language primary schools (19% of all the students), in gymnasium there are 6015 students (19,2 % of all the students).

There are 26 different home-languages where students are from in Estonian language schools (in addition to Estonian there are Russian 5745, Ukrainian 39, English 29, Finnish 21, Azerbaijanian 29, Italian 16, Armenian 13, Spanish 10, Swedish 7 ...)

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LANGUAGE IMMERSIONUncovering CLILBy Peeter Mehisto, Maria-Jesus Frigols and David Marsh

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LANGUAGE IMMERSION IS RATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE LANGUAGE-LEARNING METHOD

Management and development of the programme

Training and counselling of teachers, faculty members, administrations

of kindergartens and schools, as well as education officials

Compailing and publishing

teacher-training materials

and teaching materials

Coordinating research

Exchanging experiences with

domestic and foreign partners

Informing public

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MULTILINGUALITY IS A KEY OF SUCCESS IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Language immersion programme is Estonian choise of content and language integrated learning

Programme focuses on language, content and learning skills

At least 60% of content

classes must be taught

in Estonian, using principles of

immersion programme

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LANGUAGE IMMERSION

One strategy for addressing the issue involved the launch of a voluntary Estonian language CLIL programme in September 2000 for 134 seven-year-olds in four Russian-language schools beginning in Grade 1. Entry to the early CLIL programme can be gained in kindergarten or in Grade 1. On mutual agreement among participating schools, student selection is based primarily on a first come, first served basis.

The programme begins with total immersion in Estonian in kindergarten and Grade 1 leading to the introduction of Russian language instruction in Grade 2.

Inspired by the success of the early CLIL programme, a late CLIL programme beginning in Grade 6 was launched in four schools in 2003.

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The programme involves 4270 children and 650 teachers

54 education institutions are involved with the programme

Early LI programme begun in 2000; 2009 – 15 schools

Later LI programme begun in 2003; 2008 – 15 schools

Kindergarten LI programme begun in 2003; 2008 – 31 kindergartens

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EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THE LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMME

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ACHIVEMENTS (1)

Language immersion principles and methods are widely spread throughout Estonia

– Involvement in the programme; spreading to regular schools; continuing training

Language immersion classes results are coherent with international experiences

Special learning materials have been produced and the materials are widely used

– 95 large-format children's books (translated from English and French),

– 14 large-format picture-books for kindergartens

– study-set for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade

– over 3000 work-sheets for basic school students

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ACHIVEMENTS (2)

Regular teachers training support for education institutions involved with the programme

The number of language immersion trainers and counsellors has grown over the years

Programme independent surveillance (research of study-performance and sustainability of the programmes)

Public relations purposeful and intention-driven development– Language immersion has been a subject in journalism over 100 times

(until October 2009)

– 10-series reality-serial of language immersion class students and a 30-minute roundup movie of the series, “What is immersion”

– Language immersion parents unit (LIPU) conducted a widely spread programme informing campaign in Tallinn, Narva, Kohtla-Järve and Tartu

– LIPU publishes a newspaper “Roditelskaja Gazeta”, 4 issues in a year

– 5 yearbooks have been issued about the language immersion programme in Estonian, Russian and English 16

ACHIVEMENTS (3)

Language immersion programme has its own homepage (www.kke.ee) and LIPU has a blog (www.kllest.blogspot.com)

Support from local governments

Handbooks for teachers and governing boards

Interest of top-politicians

Nationwide acknowledgement– 2004 Presidents educational award

– 2005 language-learning recognition-letter for early language immersion

– 2009 contest winning of educational science works

Estonian language immersion programme has been introduced on different conferences and forums in Estonia and abroad

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LANGUAGE IMMERSION CONFERENCES

Annual language immersion programme conference concentrates on execution of the programme and its future

2001 – Language immersion in Estonia – a sight to the future2002 – Language immersion – it is in our hands to make it work2003 – Language immersion – a step to the future2004 – Language immersion – an inseparable part of the education system2005 – Language immersion spring-conference (late language immersion conference)2006 – Inner-training system2007 – Teachers employment and keeping2008 – CLIL 2008 Fusion Conference – Multilingual Mindsets in a Multicultural World – Building quality learning communities (international conference)2009 – Language immersion conference – Counselling and internal-evaluation of education institution 18

LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMME IS DEVELOPED ORTHOGENETICALLY

Estonian language immersion programme has been a topic inTwo doctoral thesis

Twelve master's thesis

Additional reading

http://www.meis.ee/eng/immersion

http://www.kke.ee/index.php?lang=eng

Peeter Mehisto, CLIL Counterweights: Recognising and Decreasing Disjuncture in CLIL - http://www.icrj.eu/index.php?vol=11&page=75

New goals in programme development

Quality-system , quality-management and internal-evaluation

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CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING (CLIL)

http://www.clilconsortium.jyu.fi/International CLIL Research Journal http://www.icrj.euhttp://www.onestopclil.com/http://www.macmillanenglish.com/methodology/books/Uncovering-CLIL.htm

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LAYOUT SUPPORTS THE AUTHORS

GOALS FOR THE MATERIALS

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