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In this chapter, immersion education is presented as one type of bilingual education program. It has often been stated that the term “bilingual education” itself, as well as a number of other important terms used within bilingual education programs, is both vague and multifaceted and therefore difficult to define (for a list and a discussion on some key concepts, see, e.g., SkutnabbKangas and McCarty 2008). The same is true of the term “immersion education”, which, during its almost 50 years of existence, has become a worldwide education program. Since definitions of immersion, which are somewhat misleading, occur in different contexts, the intention of this chapter is to highlight essential features of immersion education that help readers to identify immersion education characteristics.
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