El Marino Language School is pleased to offer a Dual Language Immersion Program.  Your child has an opportunity to participate in this meaningful experience, which serves English-speaking students of various backgrounds and students who speak the target language, either Japanese or Spanish.  The program is designed to place English-speaking and Spanish-speaking or Japanese-speaking students together in a classroom where both languages are valued and used for instruction. The Immersion Program begins in Kindergarten and expands one grade level per year through grade five.  In order to achieve the program goals, the program requires a long-term commitment of participation of six years. Program participants understand that this is an additive bilingual program, which requires that students master state standards in BOTH languages.