ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Middlebury’s School in Jordan, one of Middlebury’s C.V. Starr Schools Abroad. This chapter highlights the way in which its high-quality, fully immersive experience contributes to the linguistic, intercultural and personal development of its students. The authors illustrate the challenges students face when they live under a language pledge and highlight the school’s efforts to make the local context the starting point for all program components and initiatives. Specific examples are presented to convey how the school in Jordan aims to create an environment in which the classroom, program activities and local context are inseparable so that student learning is the direct result of interactions with the host society.
