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A call for more Asian language immersion teachers to be trained

LAist, by Josie Huang, June 6, 2022

Chinese and Vietnamese are, after Spanish, the most commonly spoken non-English languages in California, but they’re rarely taught in public schools because there’s not enough teachers to do the job.

The state issued nearly 1,200 bilingual accreditations in the 2020-2021 school year, but only 63 were for Mandarin Chinese and two for Vietnamese, according to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

The total number of K-12 teachers accredited in Asian languages added up to 93.

Civil rights leaders on Monday joined with state legislators in calling for a one-time, $5 million state allocation to invest in a teacher training consortium for Asian languages, in hopes of moving some of the credentialing costs off the shoulders of teachers.

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    Minji Xu

    Many thanks for this blog and I am also enjoying your book ‘A parent’s guide to Mandarin immersion’. I wonder if there is any collaboration between ESL (English as a second language) teacher training and CSL (Chinese as a second language) teacher training. There seems to be a lot both can learn from each other.

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