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Language Immersion - Starting Early

posted 2007-02-01 17:22:53
by Dean Nomura

I recently read this article  about a direction schools in the San Francisco Bay Area have been taking toward language immersion programs.  Admittedly, I haven't kept tabs on this type of program for many years.  My assumption had been that immersion in the U.S. was typically geared toward non-English-speaking children as a way to teach them English as quickly as possible.

I found the article quite interesting for several reasons.  I wasn't aware there were immersion programs for children to learn Mandarin or that this started at the young Kindergarten level.  But what most surprised me at first (but certainly made sense), was the comment that parents were enrolling their kids in the program because they wanted "their children to learn a language that could give them an edge 20 years hence."

I thought this another great example of the importance of a global perspective.

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