From The Juneau Empire By Ben Hohenstatt Monday, January 7, 2019 By February, Juneau could have a childcare program entirely in Lingít. Haa Yoo X’atángi Kúdi is Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s new “language nest,” an immersive program intended to help revitalize the Tlingit language of Lingít. After four years…

From Quartz By Abdi Latif Dahir January 8, 2019 Kenya will teach Mandarin in classrooms  in a bid to improve job competitiveness and facilitate better trade and connection with China. The country’s curriculum development institute (KICD) has said the design and scope of the mandarin syllabus have been completed and will be rolled in out in…

From Edutopia ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LEARNERS The Dual Immersion Solution Instead of seeing English language learners as a costly challenge, districts are increasingly recognizing the assets they bring to their schools. From Edutopia.org By Conor P. Williams November 16, 2018 “Traigan sus bocas, que vamos a cantar,” croons the man’s voice—bring your mouths, we’re going to sing.…

  The Foreigners are in 709 is the book I suspect most of us would write if we had the gumption to just up sticks and move to China with our kids. Not a historical treatise, not a novel, not a deeply-researched analysis. Just the daily issues that come up when you relocate to China,…

New Study Examines Costs of Dual Language Immersion Programs From the New America Foundation By Ingrid T. Colón Sept. 28, 2018 Dual language immersion (DLI) programs—where students are given academic instruction in two languages—are becoming increasingly popular due to the economic, cognitive, and academic benefits bilingualism may confer on students. Because DLI programs offer specialized…

A hard question to answer, because the answer is different for every person, and in fact each person probably has several answers. The essay below is by a young Chinese-American woman who’s now living in China. It touches on some important points about our sometimes unthinking presumption that if a young person is fluent in…

A workshop in June for teachers. CARLA does great immersion workshops. Character Literacy Acquisition in Mandarin Immersion Classrooms: Lessons from More- and Less-Proficient Readers June 17-19, 2019 Promoting high levels of character literacy among immersion learners is arguably one of the Chinese immersion teacher’s greatest challenges. During this three-day institute, participants will examine key findings…