Description:
Overview
With over 50 years of proven success, GrapeSEED English Language
Acquisition is an English-only immersion program that taps into children's natural
tendency to use language to communicate. The roots of the Natural Approach date back
to the Committee of Twelve creation of the Modern Language Association in 1901
which describes the approach as series of "monologues by teacher" dotted with
questions and exchanges with learners all in the foreign language [Krashen, S.D,
Terrell, T.D., The Natural Approach. Prentice Hall, 1995,(10).]. A branch of this
approach, the Audiolingual Method, expanded beginning in 1940s with the need for
foreign language courses for military personnel [Ibid, (23).]. Research during 1990s
contributing to the research-based design of GrapeSEED are reflected in the
GrapeSEED design.