Author: Elizabeth Weise

Want to see San Francisco’s Mandarin immersion program up close and personal? Check out this great documentary. And for the next three days it’s available with Chinese subtitles. ===== Last 3 days to catch Speaking in Tongues in Chinese and Spanish on the PBS website… Spanish: http://video.pbs.org/video/1563556910 Chinese: http://video.pbs.org/video/1563525997 At a time when 31 states…

This raises the ongoing problem of how to fund Mandarin immersion programs in an era of cash-strapped public schools. ==== Updated 10/11/2010 09:10 PM High-Ranking LES School Has Nine Open DOE Investigations By: Lindsey Christ   To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how. install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then…

China plans revamp of HSK test October 11th, 2010 5:12 am ET Two-decade-old method assesses Mandarin Chinese proficency BEIJING, CHINA – When South Korean student Yi Da Hye came to China in 2004, she could speak a smattering of Mandarin but struggled with sentences and could write only a few Chinese characters. After five years…

The Chinese Language Flagship Program exists at several universities and offer a place for already-fluent Mandarin speakers to go with their Chinese. At many universities, Chinese classes are for beginners and don’t get much beyond moderate/advanced. For kids coming out of immersion programs, there simply aren’t enough classes at enough depth for them. The Flagship…

From The Beauford Gazette The arrival of two instructors from China who will help launch partial immersion programs in Mandarin is being delayed as the Beaufort County School District wrangles with the state Department of Education and other agencies. The district received grants this summer to bring Chinese teachers to two international baccalaureate elementary schools…

Parents in the western Canadian province of British Columbia are working full out to create Mandarin immersion programs there. They’ve got several web sites up, and a really nice wiki article up on the University of British Columbia web site  here. It’s a good model for parents in other parts of the world who want…

St. Cloud school district looks to expand immersion program By Dave Aeikens • daeikens@stcloudtimes.com • October 2, 2010 Sixteen third-graders in the immersion program at Madison Elementary School sang in Chinese with their teacher last week. Almost three years from now they will leave Madison for middle school, ready for the next stage of the…