Districts Diversify Languages Offered in Dual-Immersion Arabic, Vietnamese are latest offerings By Corey Mitchell As demand for dual-language-programs surges around the country, school districts are beginning to offer students a broader array of target languages to learn. School leaders in New York City, the nation’s largest district, are expanding their dual-language offerings beyond Spanish and Mandarin to include…

Paradise Valley Elementary students have begun their third year in the Mandarin dual language immersion program. Students who began in kindergarten knowing nothing, are now in second grade having conversations with each other in their new language. The number one rule in the classroom, no English allowed. Students only speak Mandarin as long as they’re in the program.…

In some places, parents who want their district to open a Mandarin immersion program get push-back from residents who suggest it’s all being controlled by China or that Americans should only learn English or that it’s all part of some nefarious plot. I get a surprising amount of hate emails about how I must be a…

This is from Western Kentucky University. These students are in the Flagship program, which you can read about here: http://www.thelanguageflagship.org/content/chineseIt exists at almost a dozen universities in the U.S. and offers a clear pathway for students who hit college already fluent — as MI students do and will! WKU students immerse into the Chinese culture Francis…

The Newport-Mesa school district has launched its first Mandarin Immersion Program at College Park Elementary School, in which kindergarten students will be instructed in English and Mandarin. For the inaugural year, the program is starting with 20 students and one teacher, Vivian Lam, to guide them. From 8 a.m. to 1:05 p.m., lessons for social…

NAVARRO TALKS DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION INITIATIVE (VIDEO) Montgomery County Councilmember shares in this MyMCMedia Extra that she is in “conversations” with Montgomery County Public Schools officials about the creation of a dual language immersion program. “What if we had dual language programs where you can have that low-income Latino student learning English and perfecting their…

I got an email from them this week. Has anyone used them? How did it go? == Here is a brief description of PandaTree: One-on-one conversation practice with Mandarin tutors We’ve hired amazing Mandarin tutors to help kids grow their fluency and confidence.  All of our tutors have been kid-tested and teacher reviewed, and every online, one-on-one…