What is Intensive Chinese Network (ICN)?
ICN简介

CLIL Schools typically offer Chinese as a subject with significantly more time-on-task than mainstream schools. 

Furthermore, they also teach other curriculum areas in Chinese, e.g. a school may have 4 sessions of Chinese a week and 4 sessions of Science taught in Chinese. 

The pedagogical approach adopted by these schools is known as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and such arrangements allow students to have additional exposure to the language in an authentic and meaningful context.

CLIL学校提供的中文课程，比主流学校有更多的学习时间。

此外，他们还用中文教授其他课程领域，例如，每周可能有4节中文课和4节用中文教授的科学课。

这些学校采用的教学方法被称为学科内容与语言整合学习（CLIL），这安排使学生能够在真实且有意义的环境中更多地接触到语言。

Some schools in the ICN are also known as Chinese-English Bilingual Schools. 

Even though the definition of bilingual schools differs across each state and territory, bilingual schools in Australia typically operate on a partial immersion model, with at least 30% of the curriculum hours being spent in Chinese. 

Bilingual schools have the ability to create a more immersive environment for language learning by taking language outside of the classroom and balancing the symbolic presence of both English and Chinese in the school.

部分ICN学校也被称为中英双语学校，尽管各州和领地对双语学校的定义有所不同，但澳大利亚的双语学校通常采用部分沉浸式模式，至少 30% 的课程时间用于中文教学。

透过将语言扩及教室之外，并让校内环境的中英并呈，展现对两种语言同等的重视，双语学校为语言打造更沉浸式的学习环境。