特色教學
Immersion: Our Unique Language Teaching Strategy
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Our English Immersion Programs
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我們的沉浸式英語課程 （English Immersion Courses）
六和高中的沉浸式英語課程（English Immersion Courses）是由從國外移居台灣的外籍英語教師用100% 英語授課，他們來自美國、加拿大等英語國家，並獲得當地教師資格證書，來台定居後繼續從事英語教學工作。
沉浸式英語課程是雙語教育的一種形式，讓母語非英語的學生，能直接進入全英語的課堂教學。本校的沉浸式英語課程與台灣主流的 ESL（以英語作為第二語言）語言學習方式不同。一般ESL授課方式，是由母語非英語的教師授課，大部分以中文進行。然而在本校規劃的沉浸式英語課程中，我們所有以中文為母語的學生，都限定必須在第二語言（英語）的環境中展開學習。在大多數的語言學習規範中，沉浸式英語教育是創新而非典型的，它源自於加拿大的法語教育體系。
加拿大是英法雙語國家，在1960年代因為政治需要開創了法語的沉浸式課程，也是全世界第一個採用此教學方式的國家，過去 60 年來，許多加拿大的學校一直在為學生提供這樣的課程。本校的沉浸式英語課程啟蒙於此，因為我們聘請了來自加拿大的中學老師，進行專業規劃，以加拿大沉浸式的語言教學方式，作為六和高中英語教育的藍本。我們讓學生沉浸在百分之百的英語學習環境（Total Immersion），從國中部開始每週有6~8節課，規範學生使用全英語來理解上課的內容，使他們逐漸適應以英語作為主要的學習語言，並能自然流利地使用英語。
六和高中的沉浸式英語課程
Junior High School Courses (6-8 weekly English Immersion classes)
What is Lio-Ho High School’s “English Immersion program?” The Junior High School English Immersion classes at Lio-Ho are 100% English instructional classes taught by authentic English speaking-teachers who have moved to Taiwan from abroad. They have received their teacher certifications abroad in an English-speaking country such as Canada and USA and have decided to continue their teaching careers in Taiwan.
English Immersion is a form of Bilingual Education in which students who do not speak English as a first language receive classroom instruction in English.
Our English Immersion program at Lio-Ho High school is different from the mainstream ESL (English as a Second Language) style of language learning in Taiwan where students are taught English by Non-Authentic English-speaking teachers giving classroom instructions in Mandarin Chinese. In our English Immersion program, all of our students (the majority language group—Mandarin Chinese speaking) are “voluntarily” immersed in the minority language (English) environment, and such immersion-type of English education is atypical of most language learning norms in Taiwan classrooms, where the predominant classroom instructions are always given in Mandarin Chinese.
Lio-Ho High School’s English Immersion program is based on the French Immersion program developed in Canada in the 1960s, as Canada is an English-French bilingual country—many Canadian schools have been offering French immersion programs to English speaking students for the past 60 years, and our school is modeled in the same Canadian Immersion language teaching and learning style in English.
Therefore, at Lio-Ho High School, our students receive teaching instructions in English at one hundred percent of their instructional class time, this is called "total immersion," and in this style of learning, students are immersed in 100% English language learning environment and are required to understand instructional material in English, allowing them to gradually adapt to using English as their dominant learning language.
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