Many eyes are on the AIM as it is transforming how languages are taught.
Research published in 2019 in the Netherlands show that AIM students outperform other students in ALL language skills.
In 2023, AIM students at Cygnus Gymnasium in Netherlands achieved the 100th percentile,and were rated Best French Classes in the country!
Supporting Research Studies
The following are research studies supporting AIM and are available for download:
- AIM Article – Winner Best Article of 2022 by Audrey Rousse Malpat Download
- Wim’s Research (Ph.D.) “From ‘learning to use’ towards ‘using to learn’?” by Wim Gombert Download
- Pauline Vis AIM Article 2020, by Pauline Vis Download
- Why AIM Works: Supporting Research Studies, by Wendy Maxwell Download
- AIM and Montessori, by Wendy Maxwell Download
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Accelerative Integrated Method, by Wendy Maxwell Download
- Actions Speak Louder than Words, by Shelley Forsythe Download
- The Accelerative Integrated Method: A Descriptive Case Study, by Stephanie Arnott Download
- The Accelerative Integrated Method: A Holistic Approach to the Teaching of French as a Second Language, by Wendy Maxwell Download
- Teaching FSL with AIM, by Brandon Carroll Download
- AIM in High School French Classrooms, by Audrey Rousse-Malpat, Marjolijn Verspoor and Saskia Visser Download
- Innovation in French as a Second Language Teaching at the Elementary Level: An Exploratory Investigation, by Mardi Michels Download
- Effectiveness of explicit vs. implicit L2 instruction, by Audrey Louise Marie-Jeanne Rousse-Malpat Download
What they’re saying about AIM…
AIM in Canada
- Why We’re Failing at French – And how to actually teach a language, THE TYEE
- It’s all French to me – Schools find different ways to help their students learn our other official language, TOWN CRIER
- Program succeeds in AIM to engage students in learning French, OACS NEWS SERVICE
- West Van’s French revolution, NORTH SHORE NEWS
- “The answer to every French teacher’s dream’, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
- Speak French with your bare hands, NATIONAL POST
- L’anglais par les gestes, LE SOLEIL
- Program gives French teachers helping hand, THE BRAMPTON GUARDIAN
- Fluency in French starts with the hands, THE CHRONICLE-JOURNAL
- Learning French hands-on – Method of teaching through gestures gaining momentum, popularity with students, THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
- Fluent French is program’s AIM, THE TORONTO STAR
AIM in the United States
- Aim to Please!, LANGUAGE MAGAZINE
- Accelerated learning of a second language at King Middle School, BERKELEY TIMES
- Whole body language, SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD
- Lake Ridge Kids ‘hand’-taught to speak French, THE PLAIN DEALER
AIM in Australia
- Sign of the TImes: School finds success with new way of teaching languages,THE AGE
- French revolution hits Ivanhoe, THE HEIDELBERG LEADER
- Nous parlons français (We speak French), XPRESS
AIM in England
- Cumbre del la classe – that’s starlet Jossie, THE CHICHESTER OBSERVER