沉浸教学(Immersion Education)是一种外语教学模式。这种模式对我国外语界来说是比较陌生的。但在美国和加拿大,语言教师对此都很熟悉。这是因为沉浸教学起源于加拿大,后来推广到美国。在北美的许多中小学,此法被采用了近三十年。长期以来,一些语言学家、教育学家一直在对它进行研究。为了使我国外语教师对此有所了解,本文将对沉浸教学作一系统介绍。 Immersion Education is a foreign language teaching model. This model is unfamiliar to our foreign language circles. But in the United States and Canada, language teachers are familiar with it. This is because immersion teaching originated in Canada and later extended to the United States. This method has been adopted for nearly 30 years in many primary and secondary schools in North America. For a long time, some linguists and educators have been studying it. In order to make our foreign language teachers understand this, this article will make a systematic introduction to immersion teaching.