Sentences with phrase «language immersion students»

DC International School (DCI) is a cooperative, collaborative Middle and High School that enables language immersion students to continue their bilingual educational journey.

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We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

A study in the journal Psychological Science finds that students learning a new language in a total immersion environment had reduced access to their original language.

A partial - immersion K - 12 Japanese - language program teaches students that it's easy to make friends if you speak the same tongue.

We have instituted a one year immersion programme for our students in Nigeria and Benin Republic to spend in either country acquiring a second international language as a medium of communication and connections.

To isolate the effect on student learning of the language of instruction, the researchers followed students who were all learning reading via the Success for All curriculum but were randomly assigned to structured English immersion or transitional bilingual education.

Foreign - language - immersion schools can be defined broadly as those in which students spend at least 50 percent of their time learning while immersed in a nonnative language (Lenker and Rhodes, 2007).

Students in «50 - 50» language - immersion schools, in which students spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and CollierStudents in «50 - 50» language - immersion schools, in which students spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collierstudents spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collierstudents in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collier, 2002).

Yet those students are now getting more of an immersion experience in English, while English - speaking parents are sending their children to schools where lessons are taught in Mandarin, Japanese, or another world language.

Importantly, language - immersion classes are supported with instructional assistants who are native speakers of the immersion language and who can share knowledge of cultural traditions that support students» understanding of global perspectives.

Conor Williams, a senior researcher at New America, a D.C. think tank, called the increasing Hispanic enrollment «a wonderful opportunity» to expand dual - language immersion programs that use students» home languages to help teach their peers.

Although some other studies have advocated faster immersion in English, the most recent national study suggests that keeping students in native - language classes for at least five years gives them a better foundation for future academic success.

He has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual and immersion education for language minority and language majority students.

The students, who learn within a Mandarin Chinese language immersion curriculum, greeted the two Presidents on the South Lawn with «Ni Hao,» and some were rewarded...

Nash - Rocky Mount Public Schools is recruiting elementary schools students to join Spanish - language immersion classes for the coming year.

Strong programs that have the most effect, they found, are Native language and culture immersion programs that enhance student motivation, ethnic pride, and self - esteem; provide varied opportunities for parent and elder involvement; and provide investment in teacher professional development and «community intellectual resources,» as evidenced by «grow your own» approaches to Native teacher preparation.

What to watch: HIDOE intends to expand the efforts of the Teacher Induction Center to better support teachers serving special education students, English language learners, and students in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populations.

Developing students to be bilingual and biliterate is a primary goal of dual language immersion programs.

Other theme - based schools that have had success in attracting diverse student populations are schools focused on STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — education and language immersion.85

English learners also need to have more access to bilingual and dual - language immersion programs as research indicates that dual - language immersion is the most effective model to educate students who have limited English skills and close the achievement gaps between English learners and their peers over the long term.

Proponents of Prop. 227 say English immersion is essential to students learning the language as quickly as possible, pointing to increases in academic performance by English learners on state tests since the law passed.

From Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs to dual - language immersion to Career Academies, public schools are increasingly looking to expand the choices they provide students that appeal to their different interests.

But by the 5th grade, students who received instruction in two languages performed as well as or, in some cases, better than their English - immersion peers on English - proficiency tests and academic - content exams.

The students, who learn within a Mandarin Chinese language immersion curriculum, greeted the two Presidents on the South Lawn with «Ni Hao,» and some were rewarded with the opportunity to shake hands with Obama and Hu.

Yu Ying, the first public school in the Nation's Capital to offer a Chinese language immersion program, delivered in combination with the International Baccalaureate Organization's Primary Years curricula, seeks to educate elementary students «to become bilingual and biliterate in an increasingly important world language» with «a world class education that opens doors to the future.»

Coupled with online software like Duolingo and Anki that emphasize spaced repetition, vocabulary acquisition, as well as good old immersion techniques such as watching videos in the target language, Dunn's students» attitudes about learning a new language have changed.

DC Bilingual implements an innovative dual immersion Spanish and English learning program for all students, regardless of home language.

Read this article about how our language immersion program prevents student frustration and keeps the children engaged and loving to learn!

Dual - language immersion allows English - speaking students to learn Spanish as their Spanish classmates learn English.

In an engaging and informative interview, Principal Daniela Anello demonstrated how participating in a data - driven, innovative dual language immersion program at DC Bilingual provides students and parents alike with resources for life - long learning.

Our students have access to rigorous dual immersion language programs in Spanish and French starting in first grade.

Recently, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform highlighted a number of «asset - based» approaches to ELL instruction, including the International Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a two - way immersion school where all students are labeled as second - language learners and help one another learn a second language.

With more than 51,000 students who currently speak English as a second language, it's time to kill English as a Second Language programs (ESL) and English Immersion programs (EI).

The mission of East Light Academy is to prepare its students for success in the modern society through English - Mandarin bilingual education that features language immersion, high academic expectations, and cultural diversity awareness.

In the years after it opened its borders in 2011 - 12, attracting nearly 900 students, Riverside Unified opened a science and technology middle school, a dual - language immersion elementary school and an all - digital high school.

The first morning I sat down to work on this article, I was interrupted by two requests from alumni students (one for help with an internship application and another for a letter of recommendation for a language immersion program).

One high school will partner with the Detroit Medical Center; an elementary school in Farmington Hills will highlight Chinese and Spanish language immersion programs; in the small town of St. Helen, families will once again have an elementary school; and one school in Saginaw will serve incarcerated students.

In addition to gaining valuable language skills, studies show that students in bilingual programs not only catch up to their English immersion counterparts, but they eventually surpass them both academically and linguistically.

The pilot offered all of the things that Future will offer: a strong STEM curriculum, writing, Spanish language immersion, community field trips, and free meals and transportation for students.

In California, English language learners make up 22.3 percent of total enrollment in California public schools, but the majority of these students are placed in English - only immersion programs, as is mandated by Proposition 227, the 1998 statute that banned bilingual education in schools.

From where they sit, it is hard to reconcile national standards with their particularly unique efforts to teach kids the Native culture (including immersion of students in Tribal languages) they want to preserve.

As practiced at many districts, dual immersion means that English along with one other language is used daily in the classroom where students are also usually a mix of native English speakers and non-English speakers.

Special Education Co-Teachers work with both special and general education students in a co-teaching, inclusive, dual - language immersion environment.

Demonstrate knowledge of sheltered English immersion research: «recognizes the significance of native language and culture to create and implement strategies for supporting student learning and development both at home and at school» (PPA, standard D).

For example, students who are fluent in a tonal language, such as Mandarin, tend to have a greater understanding of math concepts — and some special - education students in language - immersion programs score as well on assessments as their general - education peers in English - only programs.

Baked into those lines are the ingredients for Sherman, a bilingual immersion school where every student is a language - learner.

If your system includes «dual immersion» classes where students hear their native language 75 % of the time, where other EL students engage in only 30 minutes of daily English Language Development classes, and where regular classroom teachers use a self - selected potpourri of instructional strategies for EL students, of course it will take up to 8 years for our EL students to learn English!

Once the school year ends, Carson will begin a two - year process of building her own K - 8 charter school, one that will offer disadvantaged students the type of foreign language immersion program popular at many private schools.

The earlier they start foreign - language instruction, the more successful they are at the immersion program, so the ISL board has said that early - childhood education is crucial to its long - range plans of opening more elementary campuses and building a large enough student population to open a high school.

In those cases where the self - governed schools are beating the odds with challenging student populations, the answer might have more to do with the teacher - leaders» ability to select an appropriate approach, such as language immersion, or to fine - tune their tactics in the classroom.