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  • Language immersion conference next October

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  • Illinois parents protest Mandarin immersion program as “unfair”

    Lake Forest parents ask District 67 to end Mandarin Chinese program This photo shows a reading program at Cherokee Elementary School in Lake Forest, where some parents are saying they want a Mandarin Chinese language program to end. ( Michael Walker, Chicago Tribune / September 23, 2002) MAPS Lake Forest, IL, USA By Kate Jacobson, Chicago Tribune reporter1:02 p.m. CST, November…

  • Mandarin immersion schools in the United States in 2014

    By Elizabeth Weise Excerpted from the forthcoming A Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion As foreign language teachers from around the nation gather in Orlando for the annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages convention, I wanted to post an analysis of the statistics I have gathered for Mandarin immersion programs in the United…

  • It’s not too early for teachers to think about summer: Some immersion training opportunities

    Summer Institutes for Immersion Teachers CARLA also offers these popular institutes that are designed specifically for immersion educators: Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching for Chinese and Japanese July 21–25, 2014 Presenters: Tara Fortune and a team of veteran immersion teachers This institute provides novice immersion teachers of character-based languages with the tools and…

  • You know you’re a Mandarin immersion parent* when….

    I got some fun new additions from Los Angeles. Keep ’em coming…   When the birthday cake comes out at a party, you start singing “Ju ni sheng ri kuai le” and then quickly realize everyone else is singing “Happy Birthday To You.”   When you reach into your purse for Kleenex, you come out…

  • Brilliant map of U.S. Mandarin immersion programs updated

      Computer scientist and Mandarin speaker Nathan Yeung at Brigham Young University has updated his spectacular map of all the Mandarin immersion schools in the United States, based on the database I’ve compiled. It’s a great way to find what schools are nearest to you. Enjoy! And pass along the link to others, Nathan’s site…

  • Pasadena’s Mandarin immersion program

      From the parents at Field Elementary’s Mandarin immersion program: In the spring of 2013 the administrators and parents involved with the The Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Program (MDLIP) at Eugene Field Elementary School received some bad news. The U.S. government Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant that had funded the start-up costs of the…