Chinese Immersion: Introduction
PLEASE NOTE: Turn on captioning to see translation of the Chinese Immersion classrooms’ activities in English.
World Language Immersion Programs offer a robust bilingual experience for young learners at the point in their cognitive development that is perfect for the acquisition of a new language. Students benefit from the instruction of two highly-qualified classroom teachers—one who will teach them for half of the day in English and the other for half of the day in the immersion language.
The English-speaking teacher will teach English Language Arts as well as select elements of science and social studies from the Delaware Recommended Curriculum and select elements of mathematics from the Common Core State Standards. The Immersion-language teacher will teach Language Arts for the immersion language, mathematics based on the Common Core State Standards, science and portions of the social studies curriculum. World Language Immersion students follow the same standards-based curriculum in all content areas that non-immersion students would follow in any other Delaware elementary classroom.
All Districts with Elementary World Language Immersion Programs have identified an uninterrupted K-12 Immersion pathway for students to continuously build toward advanced-level language proficiency. In the middle school, students will have a hybrid, online world language learning experience with Immersion language-speaking peers. In high school, immersion students will be able to take the AP Chinese or AP Spanish course in 9th grade and then participate in dual-enrollment or dual-credit courses with local universities. (Resource: Delaware World Language Immersion Program)
Helpful Links
- Delaware World Language Immersion Program
- Inside a family’s year of kindergarten taught in Mandarin
- Resources for Parents of Children in Mandarin Immersion Programs
- Is Language Immersion Right for My Child?
Related Front of the Class Videos
This video was filmed at W.B. Simpson Elementary School.