APIS students come from different backgrounds and countries, but with our family care environment, they become friends very quickly and they blend many aspects of their cultures within their school life.
Focus on listening and speaking creates the foundation for future successful language studies.
Kevin (in the video below) has very recently joined our school. He comes from a completely Thai school and home environment. When he arrived here he could hardly understand or speak one word of English. Now he can understand fairly well, but he does not have the confidence to speak by himself (especially on camera!).
The theory of second language acquisition teaches that a person who learns a foreign language first goes through a period where he just listens and absorbs. For the outside observer it may seem as if he/she is not picking up the language, but this is not true. A lot of learning takes place to lay the foundation for confidence in communication at a later stage.