MEANING
1. Deep involvement in an activity, experience, or environment.
2. Learning a language or skill by using it throughout the learning environment.
3. The act of putting something or someone completely below the surface of a liquid.
Use it for
describing sustained engagement with a community or activity; analyzing how close participation shapes understanding; distinguishing extensive involvement from brief observationSeparates deep experiential involvement, an immersion learning design, and literal submersion. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- immersion in a community
- cultural immersion
- immersion in a text
On the page
Extended immersion in the community gave the researcher access to practices absent from formal interviews.
Immersion in the fictional world can coexist with critical distance from the narrator’s judgments.
The curriculum combines language immersion with explicit instruction in unfamiliar structures.
Outcomes from the immersion program vary with learners’ prior experience and opportunities for participation.
Complete immersion in water was required before the sample could be examined.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- immersion
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: immersion, immersions. Usually a mass noun for involvement or learning; count uses distinguish individual acts of submersion. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
Practice this word in a sentenceYour margin notes
Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.