tradizionalmente, Gli studenti vengono inviati in gruppi in un paese straniero. They stay in dorms as a group where there can be anything from twenty to a few hundred students. The daily schedule is normally English Classes in the morning and some sporting activities in the afternoon. The typical duration is 2 settimane L'esperienza è molto divertente per bambini / adolescenti, però, v'è un beneficio limitato a migliorare il loro inglese.

La sfida con questo approccio è che gli studenti sono circondati da figli della stessa nazionalità per tutta la durata del soggiorno.

L'impatto di questo è la seguente:

• Essi torneranno a parlare la loro lingua madre, come è più facile parlare in quel modo
• Non hanno possibilità di praticare ciò che stanno imparando nelle lezioni di inglese
• Nessuna possibilità di pratica di conversazione inglese con persone che parlano l'inglese come prima lingua

Il risultato finale è l'occasione per migliorare l'inglese di essere in un altro paese sarà stato perso. Inoltre, non ottengono di sperimentare ciò che la vita o la cultura normale è come nel paese che stanno visitando.

The more recent approach to Language travel and improving a child's English or second language is through total language immersion. The approach of total language immersion has been fine-tuned and adopted by hebe Adventures. It is a completely different approach to what is outlined above.

What we have found, is that in many cases international students have been studying English from a young age. There general level of English is very good and in essence, what is required is an environment where they have to practice speaking English.

Total Language Immersion puts the student in an environment where they live life as a local, living with a host family and attending camps/ schools/ work placement that is principally attended by local children/ teenagers.

Private English lessons can also be provided if required and the learnings from these lessons can be applied immediately with their host family or in the summer camps.

With this approach they get 3 key benefits over the traditional approach:

• Because they living with a local host family that are not fluent in the students' first language it is an environment where they have to speak English
• The camps they attend are for local children, therefore, they have to practice their English while they are attending camp.
• Living with a host family and being part of the family, immerses the student in family life, outing, sports etc. They get to experience the culture of the country and what daily life is like.

Overall it is a much more complete and rewarding experience and very advantageous from improving their conversational English. They also make new often life long friends in another country.