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Structured English Immersion

Language teaching method

Structured English Immersion (SEI) is a total immersion bilingual education technique for rapidly teaching English to English language learners. The term was coined by Keith Baker and Adriana de Kanter in a 1983 recommendation to schools to make use of Canada's successful French immersion programs.{{cite journal |archive-date = December 2, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233428/http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr09/vol66/num07/The-Case-for-Structured-English-Immersion.aspx |url-status = live

More recently, SEI has been defined as a methodology in which English language learners (ELLs) learn English through structured and sequential lessons. Specially developed for ELLs, these lessons are based, to a large degree, on the mainstream curricula.

In a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Horne v. Flores, the majority opinion stated, "Research on ELL instruction indicates there is documented, academic support for the view that SEI is significantly more effective than [transitional] bilingual education. Findings of the Arizona State Department of Education in 2004 strongly support this conclusion."{{cite web |archive-date = March 4, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304162535/http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-289.pdf |url-status = live |access-date = June 27, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110716155825/http://www.ceousa.org/content/view/700/119/ |archive-date = July 16, 2011

SEI framework

Only Arizona mandates that its public schools implement SEI models as follows:

Significant amounts of the school day are dedicated to the explicit teaching of the English language, and students are grouped for this instruction according to their level of English proficiency.
"The English language is the main content of SEI instruction. Academic content plays a supporting, but subordinate, role."
"English is the language of instruction; students and teachers are expected to speak, read, and write in English."
"Teachers use instructional methods that treat English as a foreign language."
"Students learn discrete English grammar skills."
"Rigorous time lines are established for students to exit from the program."
SEI program graduates continue to receive support services until they are reclassified as "fluent English proficient" whereby federal law then requires students be monitored for two years after reclassification.

SEI by state

In Arizona, where SEI is required of all schools in the state,{{cite web |archive-date = May 25, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100525092142/http://www.ade.state.az.us/oelas/downloads/1-FinalPreface-Revised11-09-07.pdf |url-status = live |archive-date = May 25, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100525092155/http://www.ade.state.az.us/oelas/downloads/2-FinalListeningandSpeakingStandards-Revised11-12-07.pdf |url-status = live |archive-date = May 25, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100525092212/http://www.ade.state.az.us/oelas/downloads/3-FinalReadingStandards-Revised11-12-07.pdf |url-status = live |archive-date = May 25, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100525092229/http://www.ade.state.az.us/oelas/downloads/4-FinalWritingStandards-Revised11-12-07.pdf |url-status = live |access-date = June 27, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100525092242/http://www.ade.state.az.us/oelas/downloads/5-FinalELPGlossary-Revised01-02-08.pdf |archive-date = 2010-05-25 |url-status = dead |access-date = June 27, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110102052325/http://www.ade.state.az.us/ELLTaskForce/2008/SEIModels05-14-08.pdf |archive-date = January 2, 2011

References

Haver, Johanna J.. (2002). "Structured English Immersion". Corwin Press.
In the United States, [[bilingual education]] usually only refers to transitional bilingual education, while total immersion bilingual education isn't referred to as bilingual education. This is in contrast to other countries such as Canada, where [[French immersion]] is a form of total immersion bilingual education and regarded as bilingual education.

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