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domingo, 21 de agosto de 2016
domingo, 8 de mayo de 2016
As Utah’s first dual-immersion students are prepping for college, so is their language program
Artículo de Benjamin Wood publicado el 8 de mayo en la edición digital de "Salt Lake Tribune". (link to the whole article at Salt Lake Tribune)
Read some excerpts from the article:
«Campos said her students need to keep practicing to improve their Spanish fluency. But she added that she was and continues to be impressed with their confidence and mastery in the language.
"They're ready to study any subject in Spanish," she said. "They could travel abroad, work and they won't have any problem."
Beyond Spanish, Utah students in schools around the state are immersed in French, Chinese, Portuguese and German. Roberts said immersion programs are now at 20 percent of elementary schools, and the state continues to launch immersion programs at 20 to 25 new schools each year.[...] While dual immersion exists in some urban school districts and metropolitan areas, Utah is a national leader for its statewide program.»
«It's a feather in the state's cap that generates attention for education managers and policymakers, like in 2013, when Roberts was quoted in Time magazine saying that "monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century."»
«Utah students are competing for jobs against students in Asia, Europe, Latin America — the world — and guess what? Those kids aren't monolingual," he said. "It's not the future. Most people in the world are multilingual.»
«Roberts said he felt like a used-car salesman in the early days of the program, holding informational meetings around the state asking parents to enroll their children.
"Now I don't even do any more parent PowerPoints," he said. "We just open a [immersion] school and it's full overnight."»
viernes, 22 de abril de 2016
Link to the article:
Bilingual battle brewing in California…again
Article by Lillian Mongeau in the Hechinger Report.
Here is an excerpt:
Here is an excerpt:
«Research that was not available when Prop 227 first passed now shows that the effort involved in offering such programs could have a big payoff. One study, out of Stanford University, found that it took children learning English in dual language programs longer to master the language than those who learned English in an English immersion program. However, by the end of middle school, the students from the dual language immersion programs were doing better in English and earning higher grades in other subjects, while graduates of English immersion programs often reached a plateau in English and performed consistently worse in other subject areas.»
domingo, 10 de enero de 2016
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