Monday, December 19, 2011

Our View: English immersion charter school to provide opportunity

This newspaper is making its case for English immersion to teach immigrant kids. - - Donna Poisl

Editorial

There are many different ways in which to learn a second language, and the importance of that is magnified in southern border areas.

One such method is learning by immersion. As the name suggests, it's not just going into a classroom for an hour a day, learning rote lessons from a textbook, and then going home and spending minutes or hours on some homework.

Think of immersion in relation to water. If you're immersed in water, you're surrounded by it to the exclusion of all else, and you have to learn to deal with it effectively in order to survive.

Transfer that image to the learning of a language — English, in this case.
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