You can see the full list here: Mandarin immersion school list As always, if your school is not listed, or is listed incorrectly, please refer to the list of questions below. Answer as many of them as you can and email  to me and I’ll update the list. If you don’t know all the answers, don’t worry.…

Singapore is about 75% ethnic Chinese, but that doesn’t mean that people actually speak Chinese at home. School is taught in English, though all students take a second language, either Malay, Mandarin or Tamil. The original system presumed that kids were coming from non-English speaking households and needed to learn English, while getting literate in their home…

Gavilan Peak Mandarin Program Students Illustrating Academic Achievement, Intellectual Growth Elizabeth Medora ~ Staff~ 5/6/2015 ANTHEM – Problem solving and critical thinking are some of the most important skills students can put into practice. The Gavilan Peak Mandarin program is helping to teach students these life skills. Gavilan Peak School is completing its fifth year…

Florence boy finds practical use for his classroom lessons at Chinese Immersion Charter School JERREY ROBERTS By GENA MANGIARATTI Staff Writer Wednesday, May 20, 2015 (Published in print: Thursday, May 21, 2015) Email Print 5 Comments Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on gmailMore Sharing Services 20 NORTHAMPTON — When 12-year-old Hunter Palm visited China for…

CLEF 2016: April 15-16 Literacy: The Core of Global Competency More Information available here. CLEF 2016 will take place at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel on April 15-16. The conference theme is “Literacy: The Core of Global Competency”. Please save the dates and join us! The Chinese Language Education Forum (CLEF) is an annual conference dedicated…

As far as I know, the U.K. doesn’t yet have any Mandarin immersion K – 8 schools. The one that had been proposed, Marco Polo Academy, didn’t get off the ground. And I love it that this preschool is being launched by a man with such a lovely Welsh name as Cennydd — Beth UK’s first Mandarin-English…

This is a fascinating trend. I presume the high school is not overcrowded, and presumably this brings in money, as well as adding an interesting cultural experience for the high school students.  I keep saying there’s an opportunity for someone to create an immersion boarding school for English and Chinese-speaking students in the U.S., though I’m not…