From Global California 2030, a report written by the Communications and English Learner Support Divisions, California Department of Education. Dual-language immersion programs most frequently use English and Spanish. But California also has programs that offer English/ Mandarin, English/Korean, English/Vietnamese, and English/ Portuguese, to name a few. These programs, beginning in kindergarten, deliver instruction in both English…

This sounds like a wonderful program in Boston. Though I have to point out that it isn’t immersion. Chinese is being taught as a foreign language, for one hour a day, according to the school’s website. Which counts as what educators call FLES (Foreign Language in Elementary School.) Immersion requires that at least half the…

from our friends at CELIN, the Chinese Early Language & Immersion Network, at the Asia Society. Global Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA) Previous Kindergarten student. Celebrating Chinese New Year. Kindergarten and first grade students celebrate the last day of school at field day. 2018 Ohio Chinese speech and essay contest winners. A beautiful school mural painted…

My favorite city in North America (and that’s saying a lot as I come from Seattle) is Vancouver, B.C. Would that I spoke Mandarin, was a teacher and had a work visa. Given as none of those things are true, I put this out to the universe of Mandarin-speaking teachers who might have (or know…

Chinese immersion program to expand to Shue-Medill Middle School By Brooke Schultz bschultz@chespub.com Jul 3, 2018 Chunyuan Zou teaches a lesson in Chinese to her kindergarten class at Downes Elementary School in 2014. When those students matriculate to middle school in Fall 2019, the Chinese immersion program will expand to Shue-Medill Middle School. Downes Elementary…

From: The Conversation July 17, 2018 By Karen D. Thompson, Assistant Professor of Education, Oregon State University and Michael J Kiefer, Associate Professor of Literacy Education, New York University Between 2003 to 2015, multilingual students showed two to three times more progress in reading and math than students who speak English only. With this progress, the achievement gaps between…

A guest column by Jared Turner, The Mandarin Companion You turn the page. A picture is off to the side as you stare at rows of pinyin. But that’s not all… there is something below the pinyin. You squint your eyes and there it is: a row of Chinese characters. At first glance, you know…