Summary of the activities
Language immersion education has emerged as a uniquely constituted, highly effective program model for launching students on the road to bilingualism, multilingualism and intercultural competence.
Schoolbased immersion programs follow a variety of paths, including one-way foreign language immersion, twoway bilingual immersion, and indigenous immersion for language and culture revitalization.
While each pathway targets distinct socio-cultural contexts and educational needs, all are grounded in a set of core characteristics with a strong focus on subject matter learning as well as language development.
Under the leadership of two national centers in the U.S., this third international conference on immersion education brings these pathways together to engage in meaningful dialogue and professional exchange across languages, levels, learner audiences, program models and sociopolitical contexts.
The conference will feature the following internationally known speakers: Fred Genesee (McGill University, Canada); Philip
Hoare (Hong Kong Institute of Education); Kauanoe Kamanā and Bill "Pila" Wilson (University of Hawai'i); Roy Lyster (McGill University, Canada); and Myriam Met (National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland).
Main partners
CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota) and CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.)