A hallmark of Middlebury's language schools has been a formal pledge to speak only the language of study during the session.
We regularly see high-achieving A-level students who have only a minimal knowledge of the country or countries where the language of study is spoken, or who have limited understanding of how the language works.
She fell in love with its cadences, and now texts in Siletz, her fourth language of study, with a tribe member in Oregon.
It is an ambitious programme, but a rich and rewarding one, which would prepare students for language study in higher education, and would also prepare them to live and work at some level in a country where the language of study is spoken.
Barely half of fifth-grade students can read simple texts in their language of study, according to a survey of 13,000 rural schools by Pratham, a nonprofit education group.
The research shows that this new approach leaves students with the capability to communicate much more proficiently in the language of study, but will it leave them fluent in that language?
In 1937, when Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, he introduced Hindi as a compulsory language of study in schools, thereby igniting a series of anti-Hindi agitations.
The data were initially transcribed in Sinhalese, which was the native language of study participants.
Interview materials were developed and all interviews were conducted in Portuguese, the native language of study respondents.
The search strategy was developed in consultation with a research librarian and did not restrict by type of genetic variant, language of study or study design (i.e. case control, cohort, cross-sectional).
