Session
Education and Development
Description
The present study investigated the effect of bilingual education on language achievement of Kosovar EFL learners. It used bilingual education as an important factor on language achievement, its effect on a third language, and also in the cognitive development. To have a clearer image of the issue, the topic was researched through 40 bilingual learners and 40 monolingual learners. The bilingual learners were chosen according to their background of study. The bilinguals were students who were part of a private secondary school operating a bilingual program, which means every subject of the program was taught in two languages, English and Albanian. On the other hand, the monolinguals were students of a public secondary school who were taught only in Albanian. Both groups of the students were examined equally with similar tasks. The learners took the same test, which involved reading a passage and after-reading activities. Based on the obtained results, a significant difference was observed between the groups. As the purpose of the study was to find the impact the bilingual education has on language achievement, the bilingual group of students showed better results on executive control, communication, creativity, awareness, learning strategy, time-management. Finally, students looked more self-confident and positive towards language learning.
Keywords:
bilingual education, language achievement, monolinguals
Session Chair
Fatbardha Qehaja
Session Co-Chair
Trendeline Haliti
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 10:45 AM
End Date
27-10-2018 12:15 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.117
Recommended Citation
Sefedini, Marigona, "An investigation of the effect of bilingual education on language achievement of Kosovar teenagers" (2018). UBT International Conference. 117.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/117
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An investigation of the effect of bilingual education on language achievement of Kosovar teenagers
Pristina, Kosovo
The present study investigated the effect of bilingual education on language achievement of Kosovar EFL learners. It used bilingual education as an important factor on language achievement, its effect on a third language, and also in the cognitive development. To have a clearer image of the issue, the topic was researched through 40 bilingual learners and 40 monolingual learners. The bilingual learners were chosen according to their background of study. The bilinguals were students who were part of a private secondary school operating a bilingual program, which means every subject of the program was taught in two languages, English and Albanian. On the other hand, the monolinguals were students of a public secondary school who were taught only in Albanian. Both groups of the students were examined equally with similar tasks. The learners took the same test, which involved reading a passage and after-reading activities. Based on the obtained results, a significant difference was observed between the groups. As the purpose of the study was to find the impact the bilingual education has on language achievement, the bilingual group of students showed better results on executive control, communication, creativity, awareness, learning strategy, time-management. Finally, students looked more self-confident and positive towards language learning.