Intensive French is defined as an enrichment of the core French program by the creation of a period of intensive exposure to French which enables students to receive three to four times the number of hours of instruction normally devoted to French. In the Newfoundland and Labrador context, this enrichment will normally occur at grade six.

Intensive French possesses three major characteristics based on empirical research studies which seek to determine the most effective ways of learning a second language: an intensive period of study, use of the target language as a means of communication and a focus on language learning rather than on the learning of subject matter in the second language.
-Definition of Intensive French by Joan Netton and Claude Germain

Research on Intensive French:
CASLT website
Links to a number of different papers on Intensive French.

Intensive French
Information about the Intensive French program in the Surrey School District #36

Attachments:

VSB Intensive French booklet	[ ]	116 Kb
VSB Intensive French booklet	[ ]	101 Kb