The Road to Bilingualism - Success Cases

Abstract

This review presents a bilingualism model based on the ideas of Richard-Amato, and its adaptation to Wiggin’s Understanding by Design and the 21st Century skills frameworks. This combination has nurtured and help the immersion model arise, where content and language areas are responsible of the cognitive and communicative development in a learner. The institution recognizes itself as an alternative educational solution for its students, and periodically revises its policies to meet the needs which can emerge in their community. Taking this into account the immersion model applied in the institution has emerged as a flexible, yet well-grounded and solid program which aims to take advantage of the content in different areas to help students develop their foreign language skills in English.