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  • Berlin: First Mandarin immersion school in Germany opens

    My high school German is pretty rusty, but it looks like the first Mandarin immersion school has opened at a public school in Berlin. It appears to be atPlanetarium Elementary School, on  Ella-Kay Street 47, 10405 Berlin.

    The school  goes by the name Der Deutsch-Chinesischen Grundschule.

    The school is being created in two phases. In August they began the first classes for Kindergarten, first and second graders with Chinese as a focus, 4 to 7 hours a week of instruction.

    In the second phase, beginning with the 2012 school year, they will inaugurate bilingual classes.

    You can read their website here.

  • 爱读 iRead Chinese Book Club
    Chinese Language Education & Research Center
    爱读iRead Chinese Book Club is a totally FREE program for school to join, all costs will be on us, and schools can earn incentive toward future purchases. iRead provides an extensive range of engaging and interesting Chinese reading materials that will build enthusiasm within your programs. We sort through the thousands of available titles and select the very best to be included in the iRead catalog. Similar but different from the Scholastic program, iRead specializes only in Chinese language materials designed for K-5 students. iRead is designed to offer a broad range of materials for students to build a love for reading and to develop language, vocabulary and comprehension. We are able to offer these excellent titles of a great value starting at low price. School can earn incentives from the purchase toward building its own library.
    Once again thank you to all schools for supporting iRead, and thank you to all the parents placed an order for supporting Chinese Immersion Program. Also thank you to all the students and parents send us a feedback, your satisfaction is our priority. We believe that your constructive suggestions and feedbacks, which enabled us to work better on our next issue.
    In order for iRead to be more user friendly, we will setup a section on our nanhaibooks.comspecialized for iRead that will include all titles on the catalog with full descripition in both English and Chinese, and sample scan pages for all titles. Also we have include an option on our order form for parents and students to allow our experts to choose the books for them, based on students’ age, gender, and grade.
    If you are interested in joining iRead, feel free to contact us at sean@nanhai.com. And here are some information and past issue of iRead.
    Friendly reminder:
    ★For school participated, your gift certificate have been issued, and they are expiring on Sept 30, 2011. If you haven’t receive your gift certificate please contact us immediately.
    ★iRead for Fall 2011 will be shipped out last week of Sept, you will be contacted to update your school information. If you wish to join please contact us immediately.

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  • More on the new Orange County program

    Capo to Offer County’s First Chinese Language Program

    Decked out in red, about 60 parents and their children from all around O.C. show up to urge support for the immersion program. Finding qualified teachers will be the biggest challenge, district staff say.

     方案批准: “Program approved.”

    A Mandarin Chinese language program will be offered in the next school year at Capistrano Unified.

    The school district’s board of trustees Monday voted 6-0 to forge ahead with the program that will teach students the most-spoken language in the world.

    It will be the first program of its kind in Orange County, with as much as 80 percent of instruction in Mandarin, and trustees said they would like to see it attract students from outside the district.

    “If there was just one skill I could give to my daughters, it would be to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently,” Leland Jay of Seal Beach told the board.

    He and other parent supporters later said they would be willing to drive up to an hour to get to a Mandarin Chinese immersion program. About 60 parents attended the meeting to urge support of the program.

    Read more here.

  • Orange County to get its first Mandarin immersion school

    District to Develop County’s First Public School Mandarin Language Immersion Program

    Trustees Approve Proposal to Offer World’s Most Spoken Language

    Students in the Capistrano Unified School District will be able to learn the most spoken language on the planet, the Board of Trustees decided at its meeting on Monday night.

    District staff will create a Mandarin Chinese immersion program, the first in an Orange County public school system, and one of about 80 nationwide, in time for the 2012-2013 school year.

    “A challenging economic environment is no excuse for not being able to offer new and innovative educational programs requested by our community,” Board Clerk John M. Alpay said. “There is intense demand for this language, and in an era of school choice and competition, our ability to offer this program to our families reaffirms this District’s status as an innovative provider of quality education. Again, Capistrano Unified is demonstrating that it is capable of providing the education necessary for its students to succeed in a global marketplace.”

    While English is the language spoken by academics, businesspeople, aviators, and other global professionals and is the world’s third most popular language, Mandarin is the world’s most spoken language with more than one billion speakers. The program has proven to be welcomed by parents countywide, with 165 families having committed their students to attend the program.

    “The third pillar of the District’s strategic plan is academic achievement and enrichment. Adding this program fits right into the vision for helping student become successful in both college and career,” Trustee Anna Bryson said. “Allowing students this intense language focus will ensure that they are bilingual and biliterate when they graduate, which gives them an advantage over many of their peers who will not have this opportunity.”

    Students who choose to attend the program would begin in kindergarten or first grade with 80 percent of instruction taking place in Mandarin. The program will be phased in with kindergarten, and, if feasible, first grade. The program will be placed at an existing school site, and utilize the same open enrollment policies currently in place for the District’s highly successful Spanish two-way immersion programs.

    For more information on the Mandarin immersion program, please contact Amy Bryant, director of curriculum and instructional support, at (949) 234-9254.

  • The Mandarin Institute’s latest newsletter

  • 2011 Chinese Language Education Forum, Nov 12-13, San Francisco

    Chinese Language Education & Research Center
    Chinese Language Education and Research Center                                           

      加州中文教学研究中心
    2011Chinese Language Education Forum

     ( CLEF ) 
     

     

     
                            November 12 – 13

                Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

                            http://www. go-clef.org

    It is time to Register!
     Don’t miss your chance to network with Chinese teachers from all over the world! 

    You are invited join us NOW for the 2011 Chinese Language Education Forum.

    This year’s conference saw an unprecedented number of proposals resulting in some of the selection of an exceptionally strong slate of presentations representing the latest innovations in Chinese Language Education. After receiving more than 400% more proposals than one year ago, our agenda is exciting and timely, representing broad perspectives from Mainland China, the US, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, Africa, and South America. With such expertise to draw from, we feel it is not hyperbole to say this should be an event not to be missed by those wishing to learn from and network with some of the most renowned leaders in the field.

    The registration deadline is fast approaching! Early Bird registration for 2011 CLEF will end on September 30th. You can register NOW for only half the price of regular registration.

    About CLEF

    Chinese Language Education Forum (CLEF) is the continuation and development of the previous biennial Conference on Chinese Language Education in the US West Coast. The past 14 years since the inception of conference in 1997 have witnessed rapid expansion both in terms of academic quality and scale, reaching far beyond the geographical boundary of the US West Coast. Therefore, starting from 2010, the biennial conference will be changed into an annual event to be held on the 2nd weekend of November under the new name of Chinese Language Education Forum.

    The Forum is to build up an exchange platform for policymakers, educational administrators, K-16 teachers, heritage language instructors, and product and service providers in the field of Chinese language education. The Forum will also highlight a comprehensive Chinese Language Materials Expo.

    Hosts & Collaborating Organizations

    Chinese Language Education and Research Center (CLERC)

    The Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University

    UC Berkeley STARTALK Teacher Program & National Center for K-16 Chinese Language Pedagogy

    Thanks to the following collaborating organizations for their participation and support of CLEF 2011

     

    Alameda County Office of Education

    Association for Modernization of Chinese Language Education Beijing Language and Culture University

    Beijing Normal University

    Chinese Language Teachers’ Association of Southern California (CLTA-SC)

    Confucius Institute at San Diego State University

    Cupertino Language Immersion Program ( CLIP )

    Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD)

    Hayward Unified School District

    Jinan University

    Peking University

    San Francisco Unified School District

    Confucius Institute at Portland State University

    Chinese School Association in the United States

    Keynote Speaker

    Professor B. Kumaravadivelu       San Jose State University

    Guest Speakers

     

    Feng, Shengli      冯胜利  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Han, Zhaohong    韩照红  Columbia University

    Hsin, Shih-Chang  信世昌  National Taiwan Normal University

    Lu， Jane            杨静悦  Confucius Institute in Chicago

    Zhang, Hesheng   张和生  Beijing Normal University

    Zhang,Ying         张英     Peking University

    Registration Fees

    Early Bird   (by 09/30/2011)               $60.00

    Regular      (after 09/30/2011)            $120.00

    Registration instruction and policy

     

    Registrations may be submitted online, by fax or by mail. Register Online: http://www.go-clef.org/en/register-online.php  Register by Fax: (650) 259-2108 Register by Mail: CLEF Registration, 510 Broadway Suite 200, Millbrae, CA94030

    Join us for the Second Chinese Language Education Forum, November 12-13, 2011, San Francisco, CA.  To learn more information, please check the website: http://www.go-clef.org

    Contact         Iona Zhang

    510 Broadway, Suite 200,

    Millbrae, CA 94030

    Tel: (650)259-2100

    Fax: (650)259-2108

    Email: ionazhang@nanhai.com

  • MIPC meeting: Wed. Sept. 21, 6:00 – 8:00