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CASE STUDY: Delivering a Bilingual Education Education Curriculum within a
within a Pre-School and Primary School Setting
Maria GavrilovaAzbuka Foundation
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• Benefits of bilingual education– much more than just improving language skills. Fluency in another language alongside academic achievement
• Advantages of immersion education for both minority and majority language students
• AZBUKA foundation as one of England’s first educational settings delivering a full bilingual education curriculum, and the first to include Russian and English
• School philosophy, curriculum, planning, assessment, progress and attainments. Achieving GOOD inspection report
• Adopting and developing world’s best practice of bilingual education for the benefits of children, families and wider community
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Delivering A Bilingual Education Curriculum within A Pre-School And Primary School Setting
• Bilingual education (or content and language integrated learning) is the world’s leading methodology or educational approach for foreign and second language teaching and learning. Bilingual education has a long history and comes in different forms and models of delivery, varying by the languages of instructions as well as language distribution in the curriculum.
• Immersion education is of the most common school-based types of bilingual education programme. There are thousands of bilingual language immersion schools in the US, Europe and Asia. With the growing socio-economic mobility of the population and global economy they currently gain popularity around the world.
• In schools with immersion curriculum children immerse in another language while learning academic content. In such schools language is not taught as a subject, but subjects are taught (curriculum is implemented) in one or more languages.
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Benefits of immersion education for both minority and majority language students – research findings in brief
• Language and Literacy. Children achieve much higher degree of fluency in a second language and literacy as well as communicative and cultural competence (compared to schools where language is taught as a subject). This approach to second-language and literacy development proved itself to be the most successful school-based language programme model available.
• Academic (educational). Academic attainments in all subjects and in core subjects (literacy, reading and maths) are not jeopardised. For English native speakers and English learners from different ethnicities, language backgrounds, socio-economic levels, and developmental profiles perform ‘at least as well’ as same background peers being schooled in English only.
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• Cognitive. Fully proficient bilinguals outperform monolinguals in the areas of creative thinking, multi-tasking, problem solving, metalinguistic abilities among others.
• Economic and socio-cultural. Employment possibilities in different areas of life -diplomacy, economic competitiveness, international trade, national security and law enforcement. Cultural understanding and cultural agility for individuals, business and government. Enriches world experiences – culture, arts, travel.
Benefits – research findings in brief
Source: after CARLA
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AZBUKA: 18 years of Growth and Development
Azbuka is established as
a Russian children’s cultural centre.
Russian Saturday School
opens with a specially devised education
programme (Russian in the context of bilingualism)
for older children.
England’s first Russian nursery opens and is registered with
Ofsted in West London in Richmond-upon-Thames
borough.
Azbuka is awarded special status by the
Department of Education as a pre-school institution offering a
programme of language immersion with teaching in the Russian language.
It is one of England’s first non-English pre-school language
programmes
Azbuka Foundationis registered as a charitable,
not-for-profit organisation led by a Board of Trustees. The
principal objective is the creation of an innovative, totally
Russian-English education programme, with all existing
ventures managed by Azbuka Foundation
2001
2002 2011
2013
2016
2005
2017 – First full Ofsted Report. Uk’s first
Russian – English bilingual school has been given high ratings across all four areas examined by
Ofsted, following a successful inspection by the official government auditor of education standards.
2017
2018
2018 – Azbuka moves to its long
term home to Hammersmith.
Expansion of School to Year 3
Azbuka School opens with a totally
Russian-English reception class and
Year One.
Bilingual education resource for the
wider community
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AZBUKA as one of England’s first educational settings delivering a full bilingual education curriculum, and the first to include Russian and English
• Long track record introducing (to England) and developing the world’s most successful educational approaches in the area of foreign language teaching
• AZBUKA was launched in 2002 as a Russian immersion pre-school. After a lengthy debate with the Department for Education it became one of the first language immersion pre-school settings working within EYFS legislation
• Bilingual education resource – open to academic research, sharing good practice and open to joint /pilot projects with state and other schools, CPD training within local authorities and wider community
• 2015 expansion into a full-time Primary school with a bilingual education, two-way immersion curriculum
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Azbuka School – key facts
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• Azbuka School operates as a British Independent School implementing a bilingual education curriculum
• Philosophy• Fluency in spoken language and literacy, as well as bi-
cultural awareness – in both English and Russian alongside strong academic achievement
• Run as a not-for-profit organisation (registered charity), governed by board of trustees
• Linguistic and cultural profiles of families and children• Bi-multilingual families (incl. English, Russian, German,
French, Swedish , Thai etc.)• Russian 2nd generation families• English monolingual families
• Teaching staff• English (native) teachers• Russian (native) or Russian speaking teachers (Baltic
States and other FSU states e.g. Kazakhstan)• Training & qualifications from UK, western Europe, Baltic
States, Russia, USA• Ongoing CPD training, UK and international educational
and bilingual education conferences, and academic collaboration
Azbuka School – key facts
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Azbuka School – key facts
• Language distribution in the curriculum• Nursery level – 90%• Reception – 70 % Russian : 30% English• From year 1 onwards – 50% : 50% in core subjects
• Curriculum• Additive bilingual curriculum, combining English
national and Russian curriculum• Value placed on science, music and arts• Third language is being introduced at year 4
• Planning and assessments – undertaken jointly by Russian and English partner teachers.
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Language distribution in the curriculum
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Language distribution in the curriculum
Half-termly
language
distribution
Half term 1 Half term 2 Half term 3 Half term 4 Half term 5 Half term 6
80% All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
20 % All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
All areas of
learning
Early Years (Nursery/Reception) 2-4 years old
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Language distribution in the curriculum
Half-termly
language
distribution
Half term 1 Half term 2 Half term 3 Half term 4 Half term 5 Half term 6
50 %
Core subjects
Maths
Russian
Core subjects
Maths
English
Core subjects
Maths
Russian
Core subjects
Maths
English
Core subjects
Maths
Russian
Core subjects
Maths
English
50 % English
Science/Hist/Geo
ICT
Russian
Science/Hist/Geo
ICT
English
Science/Hist/Geo
ICT
Russian
Science/Hist/Geo
ICT
English
Science/Hist/Geo
ICT
Russian
Science/Hist/Geo
ICT
50 % All other subjects
PE / Art / Music
All other subjects
PE / Art / Music
All other subjects
PE / Art / Music
All other subjects
PE / Art / Music
All other subjects
PE / Art / Music
All other subjects
PE / Art / Music50 %
Clubs Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng
Events and
Cultural
Centre
Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng Rus/Eng
Year 1 to Year 6 (5-11 years old)
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KS1 – KS2 children on the way to bilingualism and biliteracy
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KS1 – KS2 children on the way to bilingualism and biliteracy
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KS1 – KS2 children on the way to bilingualism and biliteracy
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KS1 – KS2 children on the way to bilingualism and biliteracy
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KS1 – KS2 children on the way to bilingualism and biliteracy
School display & School Council
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Adopting and developing world’s best practice of bilingual education for the benefits of children, families and wider community in England
Bilingual education pedagogy is proven to deliver linguistic, academic, cognitive, cultural and economic benefits.
London is ideally positioned to explore and take advantage of this proven method and educational approach. The city has: large and diverse communities of different languages & culture; easy access to the global teaching resources; global centre for business and academia, and; English – as the language in which significant body of research and educational practice has been accumulated over the years (mostly US and Canada).
All of the above present themselves as concrete advantages that could be easily drawn upon to facilitate growth in the area of bilingual education, administration and implementation (planning, curriculum, teacher training, resources, assessment, development).
All it needs is sincere belief in the value of foreign languages and long-term commitment by policy makers, major stakeholders in education and funding bodies.
Good luck! Bonne chance! Buena suerte! Удачи!
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THANK YOU!
Additional Resources:
Language Teaching in Schools (England) – Parliamentary Briefing Paper, House of Commons Library (Dec 2018) https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7388
Value of Languages Report (2015), Cambridge Public Policy https://www.publicpolicy.cam.ac.uk/research-impact/value-of-languages
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) https://carla.umn.edu/
Bilingualism Matters http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/
AZBUKA Foundation http://www.azbukafoundation.org/
Email: [email protected]
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