Language Immersion

Guests: Jamie Leite, Utah Portuguese Dual Language Immersion Director; Jill Landes-Lee, Secondary Dual Language Immersion Bridge Director at the University of Utah  In the fall of 2014, there were 25,000 students in the state of Utah enrolled in foreign-language immersion programs in the public schools. At Wasatch Elementary, just down the road from our studios, first-graders learn to say, and sing, directions in Chinese. Utah was the first state to legislate funding for dual language immersion, but this reflects a larger national trend. As of 2014, there were 1,000 language immersion schools across the United States.