Travel Guide Concept

Immersion education offers an exciting chance for students to arrive at high levels of academic attainment and to acquire strong expertise in English and another language. Parents who are paying attention in immersion for their children should turn out to be as well informed as possible about this agenda model. It is hoped that this digest will serve as a useful preliminary point.

Students who have passed four years of far above the ground school French have gone to Paris and been unable to talk to people on the street because they have not erudite enough French through the customary methods of foreign verbal communication teaching. This incapability of students to speak the verbal communication that they were taught was somewhat comprehensible when language teachers focused on teaching grammar and having students do translation. However, when tape recorders became common and students spent hours in language labs listening to taped conversations with the audio-lingual move toward in the 1960s, students were still often able to carry on only dialogs they had memorized.

In the 1970s various outgoing methods were introduced to improved effect. However, in moving from a tremendous emphasis on grammar to no emphasis on grammar so that students could learn to carry on a conversation,