Stepping stones to firm foundations for Mandarin as a foreign language

The South Morning China Post - Anita Shum "Many of [...]

February 3rd, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Chinese, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, Mandarin, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Gestures help students learn new words in Mandarin: study

ECNS - Gu Liping "Students' comprehension of words in a [...]

January 31st, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Childhood Education, Children, China, Chinese, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, Mandarin, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Gutting US foreign language education will cost us for generations

CNN - Ruth Ben-Ghiat "Monolingualism (the ability to speak only [...]

January 29th, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Learning a language means failure, embarrassment and the enrichment of your life

The Los Angeles Times - Catharine Hamm "A reader recently [...]

January 29th, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Children shape their learning environment—the case of language acquisition in children with ASD

Medical X-Press - Anne-Mette Pedersen "A close collaboration between University [...]

January 25th, 2019|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Autism, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Have Fun Learning

Language Magazine - Staff Writer "If kids are having fun [...]

January 23rd, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Arts, Language Immersion, Learning, News, School, Students, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Why There’s A Language Learning Gap In The United States

WBUR - Staff Writer "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, [...]

January 22nd, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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The benefits of raising a bilingual child

The Miami Herald - K. Lori Hanson, Ph.D "Habla espanol? [...]

January 20th, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Why I Used to Dread Learning Chinese Until I Went to College

Next Shark - Grace Wang "My teacher was so supportive, [...]

January 16th, 2019|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Childhood Education, Children, China, Chinese, Chinese students, College and Career Readiness, College Degree, College/University, Cultural studies, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, Mandarin, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Meet Elias, trilingual at 3

The Sector - Sarah Maguire "Fifty years’ worth of international [...]

January 15th, 2019|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Bilingual, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Languages, Learning, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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