A Review : The Implementation of Immersion Education in Bilingual Classroom in Indonesia

Abstract

Immersion education program represents type of content based foreign language instruction which the majority of the academic content offered in the school is taught in English rather than as a subject. Immersion education program is designed to teach academic content in the target language but in a way that does not harm the learners first language intentionally. This paper aimed to review the literature on implementation of immersion education program in bilingual classroom in Indonesia. The researcher used qualitative literature study method in this study. In this study, researcher was looking for data or information related to how was the implementation and challenges that faced by the teachers in implementing immersion education programs in bilingual classroom in Indonesia. The result of this study provided that the information of how was the implementation and the challenges that faced by the teachers of immersion education program in bilingual classroom in Indonesia. It can be concluded that immersion education program could be an effective model in bilingual classroom in Indonesia for the high level students to improve students English proficiency and the main challenge that faced by the teachers in implementing immersion education program was lack of English proficiency.