Author: Elizabeth Weise

By Lelan Miller 孟乐岚 One of the many challenges of being a Chinese immersion teacher is finding opportunities to observe others teaching immersion Chinese. Observations are an integral and important part of student teaching in any field and especially more so in the relatively new field of Chinese immersion teaching. Many teaching strategies and methods…

Whether to continue the program as is, create a world language program at all three kindergarten to fourth-grade elementary schools, or designate one as a magnet immersion language school is a decision that will be made in the next two months. The decision will take affect in the 2015-16 academic year. District administrators currently are…

STARTALK Summer 2014 Archives Now Open by Lelan Miller 孟樂嵐 You may now go to this site and browse for summer programs by language, state, student/teacher, and residential/non-residential. Take careful note of age and residency requirements when applying to a program as some programs will accept only those from a certain geographical area and age…

A Big Advocate of French in New York’s Schools: France By KIRK SEMPLEJAN. 30, 2014 From left, Liam Kelly, Anju Andren and Hudson Wong, students in a dual-language program at Public School 58 in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.CreditKirsten Luce for The New York Times In the fugue of tongues on New York’s streets, French has never been…

First-graders listen in a dual-immersion class last week where they are learning math, reading and other subjects in both Hmong and English at Susan B. Anthony Elementary. The program at the Sacramento City Unified campus is in its third year.MANNY CRISOSTOMO — mcrisostomo@sacbee.com ==== At the Thomas Edison Language Institute in Sacramento, kindergarteners and pre-kindergartners sang a lighthearted song…

English-Mandarin bilingual free school to open next year The Marco Polo Academy will open at the beginning of the academic year for 52 pupils and will run classes in both English and Mandarin London’s first bilingual free school opened this September Photo: Alamy By Josie Gurney-Read 9:25AM GMT 20 Dec 2013 The Marco Polo Academy will open…

This photo shows a reading program at Cherokee Elementary School in Lake Forest. The District 67 board voted to stop offering a Mandarin immersion program to incoming kindergartners, and it has divided groups of parents. (Michael Walker, Chicago Tribune /September 23, 2002) By Dan Waters, Tribune reporter1:41 p.m. CST, March 6, 2014 Nearly 100 parents packed into the Lake…