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W.I.L.D. Weekend Immersed in Language Development
November 7, 8, 9, 2014
YMCA Hargis Retreat
Birmingham

The Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers is proud to announce that the 10th annual Weekend Immersed in Language Development (W.I.L.D.) student experience will be offered in November for students of Spanish, French, and German who have completed at least one full course of the target language and who are at least in the 10th grade in the fall of 2014. This 2 ½ day residential program will take place at the YMCA Hargis Retreat just outside Birmingham. The activities planned will include daily living experiences as well as cultural and academic learning experiences. The purpose of the project is to put the students in a setting where they will use the language they are acquiring in a non-threatening, relaxed atmosphere whose goal is communication. Therefore, activities will include physical activities, film discussion, games, music, art, history and grammar. Throughout the weekend, second language acquisition will take place either directly from lectures and reading/writing experiences or indirectly through daily living experiences and games.

For full details go to http://www.aaflt.org/wild