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Language immersion classes can now be found throughout the US, in urban and suburban areas, in dual-immersion and single-language immersion, and in an array of languages. As of May 2005, there were 317 dual immersion programs in US elementary schools, providing instruction in 10 languages, and 96% of those programs were in Spanish.
Duolingo Inc. [b] is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps and provides language certification.Duolingo offers courses on 43 languages, [5] ranging from English, French, and Spanish to less commonly studied languages such as Welsh, Irish, and Navajo, and even constructed languages such as Klingon. [6]
Concordia Language Villages (CLV), previously the International Language Villages, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [1] based in Moorhead, Minnesota which operates a language and cultural immersion [2] program, sponsored by the Concordia College. Languages (15 as of 2023) are taught in summer camps, called "villages".
[1] Submersion: Submersion-type immersion programs is a sink or swim kind of program. This type of immersion does not provide the student with any kind of assistance. [1] It is up to the student's ability to learn and understand the language on their own. Most immersion programs have students focus on developing English proficiency only.
Utah's dual language immersion program was created in 2008 to help students achieve proficiency in a second language in preparation for future careers and the global economy. In the early school years, the students are immersed for half a day in a target language – Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or German – and half a day in ...
[citation needed] Since its inception, the school has offered a Spanish language immersion program and, in 2011, LILA expanded to include a Mandarin Chinese language program as well. [1] Teachers plan and deliver lessons at LILA using primarily the target language, or second language. Teachers are either native speakers of the target language ...
CLIP is the oldest public Mandarin Immersion program in California and the second oldest in the country. [1] [2] Employing a two-way language immersion model, CLIP’s goals are to develop biliteracy, enrich culturally and achieve academic proficiency that meet or exceed the district guidelines. It is one of four alternative programs in the ...
The goal is bilingual students with mastery of both English and the immersion language. As in partial foreign language immersion academic content is delivered through the medium of the immersion language for part of the school day, and through English the rest of the school day. Indigenous immersion programs in the U.S. are designed for ...