Editing Language immersion (section)

===Location===
People may also relocate temporarily to receive language immersion, which occurs when they move to a place (within their native country or abroad) where their native language is not the majority language of that community. For example, Canadian anglophones go to Quebec (see [[Explore (education)|Explore]] and [[Katimavik]]), and Irish anglophones go to the [[Gaeltacht]]. Often, that involves a [[homestay]] with a family that speaks only the target language. Children whose parents emigrate to a new country also find themselves in an immersion environment with respect to their new language. Another method is to create a temporary environment in which the target language predominates, as in linguistic [[summer camp]]s like the "[[English village]]s" in South Korea and parts of Europe.

Study abroad can also provide a strong immersion environment to increase language skills. However, many factors may affect immersion during study abroad, including the amount of foreign-language contact during the program.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wilkinson|first=Sharon|date=Fall 1998|title=On the Nature of Immersion During Study Abroad: Some Participant Perspectives|url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ608215.pdf|journal=Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad|volume=4 |issue=2|pages=121–138|doi=10.36366/frontiers.v4i1.65|doi-access=free}}</ref> To impact competence in the target language positively, Celeste Kinginger notes, research about language learning during study abroad suggests "a need for language learners' broader engagement in local communicative practices, for mindfulness of their situation as peripheral participants, and for more nuanced awareness of language itself.”<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kinginger|first=Celeste|date=2011-03-01|title=Enhancing Language Learning in Study Abroad|journal=Annual Review of Applied Linguistics|volume=31|pages=58–73|doi=10.1017/S0267190511000031|s2cid=145004869 |issn=1471-6356}}</ref>