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The impact of the introduction of bilingual learning on sixth grade educational achievement levels
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 6, p e0234699 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
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Abstract
- Bilingualism was implemented in the Community of Madrid (Spain) more than ten years ago, through the incorporation of the English language in the teaching methods of certain schools. Since that time, various research projects have been carried out, with the objective of comparing the academic performance of students in bilingual schools with those in non-bilingual schools. The present paper makes use of primary education data from the Department of Education and Research for the Community of Madrid in an effort to analyze whether or not bilingualism results in the relative improvement of educational outcomes achieved in primary schools in the Region of Madrid, in Spain. More specifically, the data used is from sixth grade classrooms, given that, generally speaking, in this grade all schools give a standardized test which measures academic performance in Math, Science and Technology, Spanish Language Arts and English Language Arts. Our assessment makes use of a multinomial logit model, and includes the most common variables found in the research on the determination of educational outcomes (variables related to whether or not schools are bilingual, which is the main focus of this paper), as well as other less common variables considered to be relevant. These include absenteeism, satisfaction levels among families and students, and the percentage of students in second chance programs. The results show that bilingualism does not lower children performance in the subjects taught in English or in the subjects taught in Spanish. Academic performance in Mathematics, Science and Technology, and Spanish Language Arts is similar with respect to those schools which are not bilingual. However, results in English are significantly higher in bilingual schools when compared to non-bilingual schools.
- Subjects :
- Institutional Funding of Science
Teaching method
Primary education
Social Sciences
Multilingualism
Academic Skills
The arts
Geographical locations
Learning and Memory
Sociology
Academic Performance
Psychology
050207 economics
Child
Neuroscience of multilingualism
Language
Multinomial logistic regression
Academic Success
Schools
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
050301 education
Europe
Professions
Language Arts
Absenteeism
Medicine
Research Article
Science Policy
Science
Standardized test
Research Funding
Education
Human Learning
0502 economics and business
Mathematics education
Humans
Learning
European Union
Students
business.industry
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Teachers
Spain
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
business
0503 education
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....98613364df0d86e21837916bea15230d