Language immersion is a bilingual-education approach in which most or all academic subjects are taught through a student's second language rather than their first, so the second language becomes the working medium of the school day rather than a separate subject on the timetable. The modern model traces to the Saint Lambert experiment near Montreal in 1965, which taught English-speaking children in French from kindergarten, and immersion programs in many language pairs now operate across North America, Europe and beyond.
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Central QuestionHow can two languages be used for instruction across a variety of subjects? 1 Most Effective ForFostering proficiency or fluency in multiple languages 1 Classification
Education LevelEarly Childhood Education (ISCED 0) 1 Language Immersion
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Language Immersion's own live entity-description: a bilingual-education approach in which most or all academic subjects are taught through a student's second language.
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1. Wikipedia: Language immersion
Opening definition
Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety of topics.
Outcomes section
Bilingual immersion programs are intended to foster proficiency or fluency in multiple languages and therefore maximize these benefits.
Description, education-level classification
The modern model traces to the Saint Lambert experiment near Montreal in 1965, which taught English-speaking children in French from kindergarten, and immersion programs in many language pairs now operate across North America, Europe and beyond.
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