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  • Lake Oswego eyes K-5 Spanish now, Mandarin later

    BY REBECCA RANDALL The Lake Oswego Review, Feb 2, 2012 Lake Oswego School Superintendent Bill Korach suggested planning for a K-5 Spanish immersion program to begin in the fall while keeping an expansion of the school district’s Mandarin immersion program on deck for now. “We are not positioned right now to do two languages,” Korach told…

  • Mandarin for Future Mandarin Teachers (MFMT) July 2nd – August 10th, 2012

    Mandarin for Future Mandarin Teachers (MFMT) July 2nd – August 10th, 2012 Mandarin for Future Mandarin Teachers (MFMT) was established in 2006 through CI@CI, a partnership between China Institute and East China Normal University (ECNU). This summer program provides scholarships for a select group of pre-service and in-service Chinese language teachers to take professional development…

  • Santa Clara, Calif: Chinese Langauge Teaching Workshop

    Chinese Language Education and Research Center                                              加州中文教学研究中心 2012 CLERC   Seminar & Workshop Series I  When  ­    时间 Saturday February 25 ,  2012 2:00pm – 4:00pm Where­­­­­­     地点 CLERC Lecture Hall 3000 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Contact   联系人 Jessy Li       Tel: (408)380-8088        Fax:  (408)380-8089 jessy.li@nanhai.com http://www.nanhai.com 主题：利用五件必要科技工具教中文  Topic:    Five Essential Tools in Teaching Chinese    嘉宾学校：Moreau Catholic High School Guest school:      Moreau Catholic High School  …

  • Call for proposals: Immersion 2012: Bridging Contexts for a Multilingual World

    Subscribe to CARLA Newsletters                  Can’t see the graphics? View this on the web                Conference AnnouncementPlease Post/Distribute Call for Proposals Fourth International Immersion Conference Immersion 2012: Bridging Contexts for a Multilingual World October 18-20, 2012 Crowne Plaza St. Paul-Riverfront St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Featured Plenary Speakers Donna Christian, Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, USA  Esther de Jong, Associate Professor,…

  • Utah leads the nation in Mandarin immersion programs

    Language immersion classrooms: Programs are popular, diligence translates to performance Published: Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 11:04 p.m. MST By Mercedes White, Deseret News Ms Alisa Wu’s third grade class in Sandy looks like any other classroom in the country. The desks are lined in neat rows. Brightly colored pictures of letters and vocabulary words decorate the walls.…

  • Oakland, CA. – New Mandarin-Immersion School Attracts Families from Albany and Beyond

    New Mandarin-Immersion School Attracts Families from Albany and Beyond At Yu Ming, 90 percent of the instruction is taught in Mandarin. A number of studies have shown that immersion is an effective model for language acquisition with benefits that extend beyond bilingualism, including improvements in subjects such as math an [Editor’s Note: Sarah Yang is an…

  • Magnet schools, including language immersion, popular in Winston Salem

    Magnet schools attract curiosity Credit: LAUREN CARROLL/JOURNAL James White, 10, explored the Lego engineering display set up by Brunson Elementary School at the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system’s magnet school fair Saturday. By: TRAVIS FAIN | Winston-Salem Journal Published: January 08, 2012 » 0 Comments | Post a Comment Hundreds of parents and students came to the Benton Convention Center on Saturday to…