Evaluating a Bilingual Education Program in Spain: The Impact Beyond Foreign Language Learning

Cognitive Discourse Functions: A Bridge between Content, Literacy and Language for Teaching and Assessment in CLIL

“…Jäppinen 2005 andSurmont et al 2016 on CLIL mathematics), and others showing possible negative effects (e.g. Anghel et al 2012 on general primary education, and Fernández-Sanjurjo et al 2017 on science). The context of the article is 'hard' CLIL programmes, as 'soft' CLIL approaches place less emphasis on having well-defined content learning objectives as the focus of teaching and assessment.…”

Publicizing the results of standardized external tests: does it have an effect on school outcomes?

“…In addition, Anghel et al (2012) have not found significant effects of the program in either language or mathematics, and possibly a negative effect on natural and social science (the subjects taught in English). In this section, we use the methodology proposed by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and Abadie et al (2010), which applies synthetic control methods to comparative case studies.…”

Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform

“…Exploiting this feature of the policy in a quasi-experimental setting, they find no effect of bilingual schooling on test scores among LEP students, while some effect is found among non-LEP students. Anghel et al (2012) evaluate the effects of a bilingual education policy on academic performance in some primary schools in the Madrid region. This is a language-in-education policy, i.e.…”