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Bilingual Immersion programs are used to teach students another language, such as Spanish, Mandarin, German, etc. In the classroom, students speak 50 percent of english, and 50 percent of the second language they are learning. Ways of splitting this could be splitting the language up into every other day(one day english, the next day spanish) or week by week(one full week of only english, one full week of only spanish).

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This program mainly targets language majority speakers as well as language minority speakers with little to no proficiency in their native language.

Target population in US: mainly English speakers, but also Native American and Hawaiian students.

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The primary goal of a bilingual immersion program is for English speaking students become bilingual and biliterate and develop cross-cultural understanding.

The academic goals of this program are to allow students to meet-grade level expectations and to create bilingual citizens.

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Drawbacks of the Bilingual Immersion Program

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Drawbacks of the Bilingual Immersion Program

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-Students 9-12 are not offered bilingual immersion programs and can suffer without the proper teaching

- If is a target language then it is only meeting a certain group of students and other students may not get the help they need

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Students learn how to speak two languages: english and another second language. Subjects in typical english-only speaking classrooms are also taught, such as math, science, history, as well as the two languages.

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Strengths of the Bilingual Immersion Program

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Strengths of the Bilingual Immersion Program

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-Programs range from K-8

-Students meet the grade-level expectations

-Students become bilingual, with cross-cultural understanding and communication skills