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Jean Boorsch (January 25, 1906 – March 23, 2008) was a French educator. He was known primarily for his development and advocacy of an immersion method of learning the French language, which was later adapted into the course French in Action and its companion television series.

Boorsch was born in Anzin and attended the Lycée Condorcet. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 1929.

Boorsch was on the faculty of Middlebury College from 1929 to 1934, and at Yale University from 1934 to 1974.

He was made a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1967.

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