The Cupertino Language Immersion Program (CLIP) is a K–8, Mandarin Immersion program that started in the 1998–99. It began with one kindergarten class at John Muir Elementary School. It was the first ...

Immersion is based upon the premise that learning content through a new language builds proficiency in both the content and language. Yet, whatever the model (ranging from 80 to 50% of instruction in ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

At BYU, language learning goes beyond textbooks. For students living in language housing, fluency starts right at home.

There’s a strong and growing demand for schools to provide instruction across grade levels and subjects that leads to students who are bilingual and biliterate. In the seventh, and final, installment ...

Students in Erin Weisenbeck’s first-grade classroom gathered on a rug Tuesday morning in the front of their classroom at Madison Elementary School. Weisenbeck sat before the group with a large book ...

Rooms 212 and 214 are separated by just a hallway, but walking between them is like switching worlds for sixth-graders at Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs. In Grisele Avila’s classroom, ...

For decades, two factors drove the demand for dual-language education: a desire to preserve native languages and recognition that dual-language learning can boost overall achievement for ...

August 11, 2018 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you’re trying to learn a foreign language, there’s no better way than being immersed in it. Language ...

JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don’t do anything, we’re going to lose our traditions ...

I was walking along, minding my business, when out of the blue, a passer-by said, “Shikamoo” — the respectful Swahili greeting used by young people when addressing elders, which literally means "I ...