Our experience with Language Immersion has been our strength.
At Mountain West Montessori, we’ve experienced through many years of working with the children, the process of language immersion. We have children who begin attending our school not knowing how to speak a word of English and develop in the program in an English-speaking environment. On the other hand, we also have children who only speak English and end up conversing and relating to other Spanish-speaking children, and end up learning some Spanish speaking skills. In both instances, there is a period of adaptation. The children handle this period of adaptation in a much more simple and natural way than we, as adults. It was this question that drove us forward with our decision. Why not immerse English-speaking children into a Spanish language and offer them the same opportunity we are offering our Spanish-speaking children to learn English? Why can’t both children be bilingual?