Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

(and one of the best lede paragraphs I’ve seen on a story about Mandarin immersion)

Photo by Steven Lane

Teacher Hsin-yi Hu works with kindergarten students in Franklin Elementary’s first-year Chinese immersion program. She teaches Mandarin full-time to 24 pupils who will continue with her through first grade, while two more kindergarten sections are added next year.

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Room 100 inside Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is full of characters.

No, not quirky children.

Rather, the walls and desks blanketed with images of pets, balloons, numbers, people and everyday objects, each labeled in Chinese script.

And 24 kindergartners who laugh and learn as they spar with teacher Hsin-yi Hu in role play to stretch their vocabulary. Using colorful puppets, they growl as tigers or bark as dogs, always in character.

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