The theme for the lecture series published in 1996 was Language Immersion and Second Language Acquisition. The series is a part of the linguistic studies and corresponds to three credits. The Department of Scandinavian Languages of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vaasa was responsible for the lectures. The series included four articles written by four researchers from the University of Vaasa.
Language immersion is a modern and successful form of second language acquisition.
It is widely studied in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vaasa and therefore there are many approaches and points of view to the matter. The key -themes behind the articles are language immersion as a teaching method, the immersion network, roles of the immersion teacher and the learning process of the immersion student. The Immersion Teachers Have to Know Their Roles Five year olds are contented and curious enough to learn a new language.