Language travel: an open mind for our children
Language trips are an important part of a child's education. Both professionally and personally. It's a highly enriching experience that allows you to learn a foreign language and broaden your knowledge.
What are the advantages of language travel?
Many schools offer language study trips for young students. New School Lyon offers children the chance to take two language trips to English-speaking countries. During these trips, children attend language classes, workshops and a variety of activities. cultural activities and sports activities are organised to discover the country's culture.
Language trips enable students to develop their open-mindedness and linguistic skills. Being totally immersed in a foreign language allows children to develop their language skills, which will help them to grow and flourish.
A language immersion trip in a foreign language is one of the keys to learning a second language. It's not just about learning a language; it's also about developing your personality and opening your mind. Everyone who has the chance to experience a language stay returns to their own country a changed person.
After a language and cultural immersion trip, the way you see things changes.
During language study holidays, children stay with host families, which means that they are totally immersed in the local culture. This involves accepting the cultural differences and customs of the host family, which also requires a period of adaptation. During this period of adaptation, the children's perception of things may change and they will gain in maturity.
Opportunities for the future
A child's willingness and ease of expression improves after a language stay, making it easier for them to integrate more comfortably and confidently into higher education and the world of work.
Language skills are important in every professional field. It can have a major impact on the rest of a student's school career and on their future employment.
New School Lyon attaches great importance to language stays. The school offers two trips to English-speaking countries as part of its curriculum.
Firstly, for the younger children in primary school, the pupils have the opportunity to go to England. This is a first experience without parents and it allows the youngest children to hear English spoken elsewhere than at New School Lyon. The aim of this language stay is to prepare the children for their stay in the United States.
Then, for pupils in CM1 and CM2, pupils have the opportunity to take part in a total immersion trip to the United States. This takes the form of an exchange with a foreign family, with the children attending classes in an American school.
