A Camp That Never Stayed in One Country 一個從不待在同一個國家的營隊
For three weeks this July, KangLang's summer break looked nothing like summer break usually looks. Every weekday morning, a group of our students walked through the same front gate they use during the school year — and stepped into a classroom that spent its mornings in California, its afternoons debating how to feed a hungry planet, and its evenings (metaphorically) rehearsing a stage adaptation of The Lion King.
今年七月的這三週，槺榔國小的「暑假」看起來一點都不像暑假。每個平日的早晨，一群孩子走進和上學期間一樣的校門——然後走進一間教室，這間教室的早上人在加州、下午在辯論怎麼餵飽一個飢餓的地球、到了（象徵意義上的）傍晚則在排演一齣舞台版的《獅子王》。
The Immersive English Summer Camp, led by Teacher Edward and Teacher Kylie, was built around a simple bet: that children learn a language fastest when the language is simply how the room happens to be running that day. So English was not a subject with a start and end time. It was the medium for reading five classic picture books, for arguing about Yosemite National Park and Disneyland, for building paper towers, and — three weeks later — for standing under stage lights.
這場「沉浸式英語夏令營」由 Edward 老師與 Kylie 老師帶領，建立在一個簡單的信念上：當一種語言就是教室當天運作的方式本身時，孩子學得最快。於是英語不是一堂有上下課時間的科目，而是閱讀五本經典繪本、爭論優勝美地國家公園和迪士尼樂園、疊紙塔——以及三週後站上舞台燈光下——所使用的媒介。