Author: Elizabeth Weise

He pegs it at about $25,000 Australian dollars a year. Public school immersion starts to look like a pretty amazing deal from the perspective. But we only know of one possible immersion program in Australia. Are there others? Minding our languages Hugh White November 8, 2011OPINION Illustration: John Spooner The countries of Asia are becoming…

Open enrollment could begin in December for the Mandarin immersion program—the first public school program of its kind in Orange County. By Penny Arévalo November 7, 2011      When a Mandarin Chinese immersion program at Capistrano Unified was approved in September, the school board added a caveat that it be “revenue-neutral.” Parents were asked to set…

What Works in Chinese Language Immersion Programs? and immersion experts at work. (Eleise Jones) by Eleise Jones In order to create linguistically and culturally competent speakers of Chinese, we must have innovative and effective programs in the early grades. The opportunities and challenges of teaching Chinese to early language learners are most clearly evident in…

                      Submit a Session Proposal The success of the National Chinese Language Conference is built upon the innovation, best practices, and shared experiences of educators and administrators in the field. Share your ideas and successes by leading a session at NCLC 2012. The Request for…

  It’s a trend, and a great one. Another bilingual parent, this time Christina Xue, a Kindergarten mom at Starr King Elementary school in San Francisco, has started doing a weekly pod-cast to help non-Chinese speaking parents figure out their kids’ homework. It’s a simple thing, just walking through the week’s homework, pronouncing the words and…

It hasn’t taken much to turn 1st grade mom Judy Shei into a YouTube celebrity – a computer, some index cards and a marker. That’s all the Starr King Elementary school parent needed to launch her career as a homework-helping broadcaster with her own channel on YouTube. It all started because non-Mandarin speaking parents were feeling…