As Utah’s first dual-immersion students are prepping for college, so is their language program

Education » Utah program’s first group of students is poised to attain college credit through Advanced Placement exams. Layton • Layton High School sophomore Mikelle Argyle doesn't consider herself fluent in Spanish, but she feels confident about taking the AP Spanish test this week.

That's because Argyle — a native English speaker — has spent a portion of every school day speaking Spanish since she was in first grade. Argyle and her classmates, plus a similar group of sophomores at Viewmont High, were the first students enrolled in a pilot program, now in 138 schools statewide, where elementary students spend half their days learning math, science and other subjects in an immersion, or non-native, language.

"Pretty soon we were getting better and better," Argyle said of the group's Spanish skills. "We were almost on the same level as our teachers at a certain point."

By BENJAMIN WOOD | The Salt Lake Tribune  - First Published Apr 29 2016 10:42AM  

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