Scaffolded Resources Underpinned By Psycholinguistics And Second Language Acquisition Theory.

Immersion And Lexico-Grammar

The immersion based curriculum with implicit instruction is not successful with all learners. It is highly successful with students who are still young enough to be in the critical period of language development (usually elementary school age or early middle school grades), and that smaller section of the population who do not lose the aptitude to learn languages (3-5%). For the majority of high school and college students, they require a foundation upon which to build their second language acquisition. These students benefit from more targeted, heavy recycled language input, they also benefit from explicit examples and highly patterned models. Assuming the multi-language model approach to language acquisition, all languages known by the individual are interlinked and explicit development of comparing and contrasting how these languages build syntax actively accelerates the development of a solid mental lexicon. This is crucial for fluency.