An Intercultural Immersion Experience in Foreign Language Classroom

Abstract

With the impact of internet, our world has been changed dramatically in all aspects such as science, technology, economy and social system. In the world of Internet, we interact frequently with people from various countries and cultures via multi-media. Foreign languageteachingplays a bridging role in trans-porting and communicating all of the people from different cultures. In this article the author aims to high-light the intercultural communication in the foreign language teaching by applying language immersion ap-proach to foreign language classroom. Findings indicated the positive attitude and benefits of intercultural immersion in foreign language teaching and learning by implementing a video with Mexican culture. Fur-thermore, this article intends to encourage foreign language teachers to employ more intercultural classroom activities with the language immersion approach.