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‘Language Boot Camp’: 100 Years of Middlebury Language Schools

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Celebrating its 100th anniversary this summer, the Middlebury Language Schools is the oldest and most established non-government intensive-immersion program in the United States, and possibly in the world.

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  1. Pierre Bourdieu: The Logic of Practice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.

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  2. Stephen A. Freeman: The Middlebury College Foreign Language Schools. The Story of a Unique Idea. Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Press, 1990, 365n.

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Geisler, M. (2016). ‘Language Boot Camp’: 100 Years of Middlebury Language Schools. In: Berbeco, S. (eds) Foreign Language Education in America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137528506_8

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