Intensive+Summer+Institute

Intensive Summer Institute

Since many of our students, when returning to school after a long period of non-language speaking, have enormous problems integrating into the next level of languages, what if we offered an intensive (and fun) course for a week or two right before classes started, during athletic practices? We could make part if it technologically oriented, using sites and on-line materials, part of it culturally oriented, and part of it grammar review, but focused on usage--presentations, movies, plays, web-pages, etc. It would be optional, but it would be highly encouraged for some of our weaker students. It could also serve as a bridge between the lower level language classes and the topics based classes we will have at the top.