What is it about?
This article offers an accessible, short, and user-friendly pedagogical resource for immersion education that teachers and administrators can use for training and informational purposes, including communication with parents. It distills research findings on total, additive immersion for the preschool age, translates them into workable pedagogical suggestions, and offers practical approaches to working with young children in the immersion classroom. The article strengthens the position of preschool immersion educators as they are more than just preschool teachers, more than just knowledge and skills facilitators, and more than just language instructors. The recommendations focus on preschool-aged children in the immersion environment but can be used for older learners and the non-immersion second language classroom as well.
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Why is it important?
Immersion education has been surging in the United States, with a focus on bilingual programs and continued interest in total immersion approaches, especially for early learners. To this day, however, there are few pre- and during-service training opportunities or degree programs specialized in preschool, additive, total immersion pedagogy. Our article fills this gap.
Perspectives
To our knowledge, this is the first resource for immersion educators that is short and easily understandable, offering daily suggestions to improve immersion classrooms. This makes this article a great text for teachers who are already working under tight time constraints.
Juliane Schicker
Carleton College
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This page is a summary of: Preschool Immersion Pedagogy: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Administrators, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, November 2025, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/tger.70043.
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