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Peer reviewedHaynes, Jonita S. – Educational Leadership, 1983
The Huntsville (Alabama) City Schools conduct annual Spanish-, French-, and German-language immersion workshops that move the classroom to a home or church, replace the teacher with native speakers, and extend the 55-minute period to 24 hours. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Secondary Education
Davis, Michele S. – 1982
A handbook is presented of materials and activities for a weekend Spanish language camp for secondary school students. The materials provided include a schedule, outline maps of Spanish-speaking areas in the world; a glossary of useful vocabulary and sentences arranged according to topic; pen-and-ink drawings of birds, leaves and other things…
Descriptors: Camping, Enrichment Activities, Extracurricular Activities, Group Activities
Peer reviewedOberding, Barbara; Magee Onofrietto, Mary H. – Foreign Language Annals, 1982
Describes the second total immersion weekend for students of German sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of the AATG. (EKN)
Descriptors: German, High School Students, Immersion Programs, Language of Instruction
Baughin, Judith A. – 1983
A weekend immersion French language camp was organized by Raymond Walters College of the University of Cincinnati with the cooperation of a group of interested high school French teachers. The extensive planning and the activities of the weekend are described in detail. The most important aspects of the planning process are noted. These were (1)…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Educational Games, Enrichment Activities, French
de Alonzo, Ines M.; Roig, Nina Rosa W. – Francais dans le Monde, 1989
A French immersion program in Brazil took a group of adults to a mountain retreat for a weekend of intensive language use through fantasy scenarios. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization
Peer reviewedMydlarski, Donna; Klinck, Pat – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1983
Describes immersion weekends sponsored by the University of Calgary. The discussion includes examples from actual weekends to describe the planning and implementation. A qualitative evaluation is also discussed. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, French
Klinck, Patricia A. – 1981
A formative evaluation wae made of immersion weekends sponsored by the French center to determine how improvements in the role of monitors can enhance the oral production of students. Two weekends were observed and some in-service training with evaluator and monitors was held between the weekends. Three instruments were used to categorize and…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education, Enrichment Activities
Myer, Bettye J.; Wellman, Cheryl A. – 1985
A French language immersion weekend housed in an off-campus college lodge and accommodating 12 college students has been successfully implemented by the State University College of New York at Fredonia. The goals of the weekend experiences have been: the development of listening and speaking skills; creation of a cultural atmosphere of the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Foreign Language Films, French, Group Activities
Peer reviewedUrbanski, Henry – ADFL Bulletin, 1982
Describes schedules and activities of the summer and weekend foreign language immersion programs at the State University of New York College at New Paltz. Gives some highlights of last summer's program. (EKN)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses
Griswold, Jean S. – 1989
The Colorado State University Foreign Language Weekend Camps (also called the "Poor Man's Study Abroad") are described in this report. Developed to provide an international component and a mini foreign experience for the university's students, the camps are designed to accomplish several purposes including: to offer both foreign and…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Cultural Awareness, Day Camp Programs
Urbanski, Henry – 1984
In response to rapidly falling foreign language enrollments, the State University of New York College at New Paltz designed and actively promoted a language immersion program in the summer of 1981. The program consisted of instruction in twelve languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Westphal, Patricia B., Ed. – 1985
Selected papers from the 1985 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages include: "Research in Creativity and Its Application in the Classroom"; "Teaching Language Through Comprehension"; "The Testing of Proficiency in Listening Comprehension: Guidelines for Teaching"; "Who Should Be Asking…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction
