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  • Shanghai Mandarin camp with homestay

    Don’t know anything about them but thought folks might be interested. Beth   Dear Parent, Greetings from YK Pao School! As you may know, this year we are organizing the Mandarin Summer Camp and instermediate Chinese program for 5-12 year olds and we would be delighted to have your child take part. Our Summer Camp is a…

  • Mandarin summer program scholarships

    [I don’t know anything about these organizations, but it seemed it might be of interest to readers.  — Beth] Abroad101 Launches Record $17,000 Summer Scholarship Giveaway Partners with Forum Nexus and INTO China, Supporting Obama Administration 100,000 Strong Initiative Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Abroad101, the world’s first and largest study abroad review website,…

  • LAUSD’s Broadway wins award

    Broadway Elementary in Venice Receives Title I Academic Achievement Award Broadway Elementary School in Venice is one of 117 schools statewide honored with the Title I Academic Achievement Award for schools receiving federal funding. By Paul Chavez May 4, 2012        Broadway Elementary School in Venice was one of 117 schools statewide recently awarded with a…

  • TV piece on St. Paul’s Mandarin immersion Kinder class

    Students’ Year With Chinese Immersion Program May 2, 2012 8:20 AM Reporting Holly Wagner Filed Under ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – Some Minnesota kindergartners are about to complete their first year of school, and they did it all in Chinese. At the start of the school year, WCCO visited the first class ofstudents in the new Mandarin immersion program at…

  • Being bilingual makes your more focused

    Bilingualism Fine-Tunes Hearing, Enhances Attention Dual language speakers better able to encode basic language sounds and patterns By Wendy Leopold EVANSTON, Ill. — A new Northwestern University study provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals’ rich experience with language “fine-tunes” their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance attention…

  • News and Opportunities from the Field from the Asia Society

    News and Opportunities from the Field 2012 National Chinese Language Conference: The program and speaker line-up is now online! This year’s NCLC will be packed with expert and helpful sessions on immersion and early Chinese language learning, technology and innovation in language education, arts and culture, plus networking opportunities and a very special performance by I…

  • Global Competence for Chinese Language Teachers

    From the Asia Society newsletter enlarge image Nikada/iStockphoto, Jimmy Wang/NYTimes.com, Fan Kuan As a Chinese and Japanese language teacher, I’ve always had a secret antipathy for sushi and dumplings. It’s not that I don’t like to eat them. It’s just that, in my first experiences teaching these languages, I was often confronted by skeptical colleagues…