WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A BILINGUAL EDUCATION?
Immersion provides children with an expanded vision of other cultures, insights into themselves, and new and different ways of thinking. Students will learn to speak the second language as naturally as their first language. Results from immersion programs reveal that their students score equal to or better than non-immersion students on reading and math tests. Canadian and U.S. research shows that most children in immersion programs learn not only the second language but also their own language with clarity, and that they excel on both foreign-language and native-language standardized tests. Students of foreign languages have access to a greater number of career possibilities and develop a deeper understanding of their own and other cultures.