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... the students in their native language?", which is a good point. English immersion, as an education policy, means you give students the absolute minimum of support in their main language necessary for safety and then plop them in a regular classroom. Bilingual education typically means you keep them in a separate classroom for an indeterminate period of time until their English skills have caught up to par, then you transfer them to all English classes. English immersion has millions of instances of empirical solvency, spread over a couple of hundred years. The only way you can make your bet any surer is to work for the casino. English immersion takes advantage of a property of the human brain which has been repeatedly documented by the best scientific studies available: it's a virtual sponge of linguistic goodness when you're young and becomes remarkably less so with age. Every child manages to ...
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