immersion school
Total linguistic environment
An immersion school teaches students primarily or entirely in a language other than their native tongue.
The goal is fluency through constant exposure rather than formal language instruction: She enrolled her kids in a Spanish immersion school.
Students learn math, science, and other subjects in the target language, acquiring it naturally alongside content.
- bilingualSpeaking two languages
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
- languageSystem of symbolic communication
- target languageLanguage being acquired
- second languageTongue learned after childhood
language acquisition · classroom · native · native speaker · curriculum · kindergarten · early childhood · elementary · Spanish · French · Mandarin · heritage · acquisition · dual-language · vocabulary · pronunciation · cultural · enrolled
- language educationbilingual, language teaching, biliteracy, language learning, language learner
- language immersionsubmersion, bilingual education, target language
- language learningvocabulary lists, lessons, acquisition, basic vocabulary, grammar books
- Learning Frenchvocabulary, grammar, verbs, nouns, adjectives
- language resourcesdictionary, thesaurus, lexicon, bilingual dictionary, electronic dictionary