Learning a second language can be a challenge, but it's a little easier when you learn that new language while you are young. That's why language immersion programs are becoming more popular in North ...
I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...
At BYU, language learning goes beyond textbooks. For students living in language housing, fluency starts right at home.
Rooms 212 and 214 are separated by just a hallway, but walking between them is like switching worlds for sixth-graders at Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs. In Grisele Avila’s classroom, ...
The Language Immersion Student Residence, formerly known as the Foreign Language Student Residence, recently changed its name with the goal of clarifying the program's purpose and eliminating ...
JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don’t do anything, we’re going to lose our traditions ...
San Diego Unified trustees are expected to vote on changes to a charter school that specializes in German language immersion — but not all families are happy with the road their school is going down, ...
Students in Erin Weisenbeck’s first-grade classroom gathered on a rug Tuesday morning in the front of their classroom at Madison Elementary School. Weisenbeck sat before the group with a large book ...
The YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga’s Early Learning Language Immersion Center is transitioning its preschool program to a new location. Officials said, "This will ensure continued high-quality ...
Immersion is based upon the premise that learning content through a new language builds proficiency in both the content and language. Yet, whatever the model (ranging from 80 to 50% of instruction in ...