Article: What Is Language Immersion?
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What Is Language Immersion?
Language immersion is a program where a foreign language is used as the language of instruction in school. In partial language immersion, only 50-80% of a given school day is in a foreign language. In full language immersion programs and international study abroad programs, students eat, sleep, and breathe the language they are attempting to learn, and so the language is picked up much more quickly. The curriculum that the student follows will still be the same. The only difference is the language of instruction used by the teachers. This differs from second language programs where the students attend a class learning the language singularly.
Those who partake in an immersion program are forced to communicate in the foreign language. If you choose to study French in Paris, a...
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