Developing Literacy in Chinese, Part 1: Selecting Reading Materials in Chinese for the Home Library By Lelan Miller 孟乐岚, founder of Mandarin Matters in Our Schools in Texas (MMOST) and master’s candidate in Chinese Language Pedagogy This article is the first in a three part series about developing literacy in the Chinese language. While written primarily…

Language immersion school opens enrollment to Windsor kids May 6, 2013   | Written by Erin Udell When Julie Albers moved from her native Germany to Fort Collins with her family last year, she searched high and low for a quality — and more importantly, close — language immersion school for her 8-year-old son Louis. With no…

Immersion Schools Get Strategic About Foreign Language Education By Soni Sangha Published April 29, 2013 Fox News Latino A Spanish immersion program for pre-schoolers in Brooklyn, NY. (SONI SANGHA) Cuban-American Elisa Batista knew she wanted to send her children to a school in which classes were taught in a language besides English, but when she first explored…

Though the article doesn’t mention it much, Avenues is an immersion school. It has two strands, one Spanish and one Mandarin. It got a lot of press last year before it opened. Here’s the New York Times’ latest on it. Beth —- Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy? Gillian Laub for The New…

The Mandarin Immersion Program at Bergeson Elementary in Capistrano Unified School District is still accepting applications for incoming 2013-14 Kindergarten. This magnet program offers a unique educational experience with the goal of developing biliteracy, bilingualism, and biculturalism in elementary students. It is an educational model that provides academic instruction in English and Mandarin Chinese. The…

This is from the Casper Star-Tribune. Why the rush? There is a popular perception in America that in the Chinese language, the word for “crisis” and “opportunity” is the same. Though most Chinese philologists disagree, introducing Chinese as a language immersion program in Natrona County School District has seemed to be both a crisis and…

  By Soni Sangha Published April 29, 2013 Fox News Latino A Spanish immersion program for pre-schoolers in Brooklyn, NY. (SONI SANGHA) Cuban-American Elisa Batista knew she wanted to send her children to a school in which classes were taught in a language besides English, but when she first explored what is known as ‘immersion schools’ five…