Asian Language Instruction

[Anonymous]

Walnut Valley USD just launched a bilingual program at Walnut Elementary School through FLAP grant. Next year, these kindergarteners will be placed in first-grade dual-language class as new kindergartners enter the program. Their goal is to have K-5 Chinese Dual Language Program in next five years. For more information, you could visit Walnut Valley USD homepage.

http://www.wvusd.k12.ca.us/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=175964&id=0
edited by rkim on 4/13/2011

[Anonymous]

I definitely agree that more language classes should be offered to teachers, thank you all for the info. I am expecially interested in Japanese. My school is currently undergoing the IB School application process and has pushed for more languge classes. Students are able to take French, Spanish, or Mandarin. However, Mandarin seems to be the more popular course, and the most necessary according to my school and the feeder high school. Therefore, French will no longer be offered. The students seem to really enjoy taking the Mandarin class and I like the fact that it exposes them to a culture that they are not familiar with and one that they feel disconnected to. The only problem that we are running into is that we cannot find credentialed teachers to teach this course and consequently are limited to the number of students who can be enrolled in this course. As a result, all other students are automatically placed into the Spanish language class.

What a great idea about contacting the mentioned organizations to get phrases and basic langugae info for the classroom! I will definitely look into them!

[clay dube]

Let's use this section of the forum to share language teaching resources and strategies.

[Anonymous]

You can get in touch with Andrea Young at International Studies Learning Center in South Gate. She teaches Japanese 1, 2, 3 to High School students. She is a great resource and connector.

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