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espanolEl presente articulo explora las ventajas y desventajas de los Cursos de Inmersion Linguistica subvencionados por el Ministerio de Educacion, impartidos en la Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, y organizados por la compania norteamericana Vaughan Systems. Estos cursos de inmersion, llamados Cursos de Verbal Agility o fluidez verbal, siguen lo que han llamado Metodo Vaughan, una metodologia de ensenanza del Ingles que se basa, segun el autor, en el conocido metodo Audiolingual, y el metodo de Gramatica Traduccion. El presente estudio, basado en la observacion y participacion en uno de los mencionados cursos, analiza los beneficios y los obstaculos de lo que ahora es un metodo de ensenanza tradicional, aportando una discusion teorica sobre la Adquisicion de la Segunda Lengua y un breve resumen de los correspondientes metodos de ensenanza de segundas lenguas. EnglishThis article explores the advantages and disadvantages of English language immersion courses, subsidized by the Spanish Ministry of Education and organized by the International University Menendez Pelayo, which hires the services of the American company Vaughan Systems. These immersion courses, called Immersion for Verbal Agility, follow the Vaughan Method - a language learning methodology based, according to the author, on the well-known Audiolingual and Grammar Translation methods. The present study, based on observation and participation in one of the mentioned intensive courses, analyses the assets and pitfalls of what it is now a traditional language teaching method, providing a theoretical discussion on Second Language Acquisition and a brief review of the corresponding second language teaching methods.

Descriptive analysis of Vaughan systems, assets and pitfalls of an audiolingual method