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This free, all day lecture is being sponsored by the San Francisco State University’s STARTALK project. STARTALK is a Presidential Initiative to Fund Summer Programs in Critical Languages including Chinese. The Fundamentals: Second Language Acquisition June 24, 2010 9:30am– 3:30pm Sponsored by STARTALK at San Francisco State University Title III ELL Professional Development Project Presenter: …
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(and one of the best lede paragraphs I’ve seen on a story about Mandarin immersion) Photo by Steven Lane Teacher Hsin-yi Hu works with kindergarten students in Franklin Elementary’s first-year Chinese immersion program. She teaches Mandarin full-time to 24 pupils who will continue with her through first grade, while two more kindergarten sections are added…
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On June 9, 2010, the Fremont School Board unanimously passed a resolution authorizing staff to proceed with planning for a Chinese (Mandarin) Immersion Program (CIP) in Fall 2010, pending availability of privately raised funds. The vote was a major victory for parents and the community, who have been lobbying the Fremont Unified School District and…
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FROM Westside Today Broadway Elementary Offers Mandarin Immersion Program Broadway Elementary School (k-6) offers Mandarin Immersion Program this Fall 2010 with 2 Kindergarten Classes Broadway Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has announced that it is launching an English-Mandarin Chinese dual-language immersion program starting in September 2010. Broadway Elementary School, located…
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From the BBC Panama is moving to make the teaching of Mandarin compulsory in all schools, in recognition of China’s growing importance in the world economy. The Panamanian National Assembly has given conditional approval to the bill in the first of three debates. The bill’s supporters say boosting the number of Chinese speakers will help…
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By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles TimesJune 7, 2010 Wo jiao Maribel. Ni ji sui? Alberto and Maribel, sixth-graders at the Pedro Garcia Rojas elementary school here in central Mexico, introduce themselves to each other in Mandarin Chinese. Their class also recites numbers, clothing items and weather conditions in a language that, to them, is about…
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(from the North County Times, San Diego County) By GARY WARTH – gwarth@nctimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 6:32 pm Elementary school students in Fallbrook will study Mandarin Chinese, learn English and Spanish through immersion, and become international scholars as part of the district’s efforts to prepare youngsters for a global market. “I think…
