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- Title
Immersion Program: The Indian Context.
- Authors
Barimani, Shaban
- Abstract
Second language acquisition (SLA) has always been a concern and a field of interest to the theorists, practitioners, and learners. This concern and interest paved the way for the emergence of a number of methods and approaches such as 'immersion program' from time to time. In Indian educational context, immersion program has been implementing for a long time. In this paper the rationale of learning English as a second language by Indian students and the peculiarity of the implementation of immersion program in Indian context is presented. To find the effect of immersion program on incidental second language acquisition statistically, two immersion schools in Mysore, India were studied. The results confirmed the success of immersion program in second language acquisition in Indian context.
- Subjects
INDIA; ENGLISH as a foreign language; TEACHING methods; ENGLISH language immersion education; IMMERSION method (Language teaching)
- Publication
Language in India, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 4, p95
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article