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Recommendation for Program-Level Practices and Future Research Agenda

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This is the concluding chapter of this book. The goals and findings from the preceding chapters are revisited, based on which recommendations for program-level and classroom-level practices for the focal program in specific, and Chinese one-way immersion programs in general, are made. In addition, this chapter outlines an agenda for future research on Chinese one-way immersion programs, and advocates for an expansion of research on biliteracy development, especially studies employing different research methodologies, and a focus on academic literacy development in Chinese, in addition to examining language and literacy acquisition among atypical learners in Chinese immersion programs.

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Lü, C. (2019). Recommendation for Program-Level Practices and Future Research Agenda. In: Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04987-4_10

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