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What is Language Immersion?

Full language immersion is an approach to instruction in which the usual
curricular activities are conducted in a foreign language. Students acquire the necessary language skills to understand and communicate about the subject matter set out in the schools’ program of instruction. They follow the same curricula, and in some instances, use the same materials (translated into German) as those used in the non-foreign language immersion schools of their district. In other words, German is both the subject of instruction and the medium through which a majority of the school's academic content is taught.

At MGIS, students receive reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies and science instruction in German from the first day of Kindergarten through the fifth grade. In second grade, students are introduced to 30 minutes per day of English reading instruction. The amount of English is increased to approximately one and one-half hours per day at the fourth and fifth grade levels. By the time they complete Kindergarten, students are fluent in German and English. By the time they complete elementary school, they are fully bilingual in reading, writing
and speaking having received 5,200 hours of instruction in German. By the time they finish high school at MSL, they have earned 16 college credits in German language.

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