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From a great article on the ‘tip-of-the-tongue’ phenomenon by Dan Vergano at www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-10-18-tip-tongue_N.htm It’s mostly about bilingual sign language speakers, but he’s got a bit of interesting data on bilingual people: Pyers and other have shown that people who speak more than one language possess advantages that make a difference, beyond just fluency in another…
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Dyslexia varies across language barriers Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. Those differences can be seen in the brain and in the performance of Chinese children on visual and oral language tasks, reveals a report published online on October…
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好久不见 (hǎo jiǔ bú jiàn, Long Time, No See) by a Jose Ortega parent At the close of the school year, SFUSD’s Mandarin Immersion program first graders from Starr King and Jose Ortega schools gathered at a San Francisco playground to play, picnic, and solve a little mystery. This was a special day because they…
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If you’ve got kids headed for Mandarin immersion in the fall, you probably wake up in the middle of the night wondering “Am I doing the right thing for my child? Will they really learn Chinese?” Take heart, it does. Here are three examples from current Mandarin immersion parents. Abigail Son in…
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Our Mandarin Immersion Programs: How are they Organized? By Elizabeth Weise Wendy Cheong is the Mandarin curriculum coordinator for the San Francisco Unified School District. A classroom teacher for 20 years, she was born and raised in Taiwan before moving to the United States in middle school. Together with the Mandarin teachers at Starr King…
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What goes in on your child’s classroom? If you don’t speak Mandarin, it’s a little hard to know. What follows is a pretty direct transcription of a morning Mandarin class for second graders, to give you an idea. A fall morning in Mrs. Chau’s 2nd grade Mandarin class, Starr King Elementary School,San Francisco …
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By Elizabeth Weise “There is no greater gift you can give your child than the gift of early bilingualism,” immersion expert Dr. Myriam Met told an audience of almost 200 parents in San Francisco on March 16. Children’s brains are pre-wired to learn language, a skill that has already begun to fade by ninth grade…
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