Partial immersion is a means of acquiring a foreign language through content matter instruction.
Students spend half the day studying the regular grade-level curriculum in classes conducted in the foreign language. The other half of the day is conducted in English. The school district determines the subjects to be taught in the foreign language. The FCPS program model is based on the highly successful immersion programs that were implemented in many school districts throughout Canada and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. The uniqueness of an immersion program is that the foreign language is not taught as a subject.