Re: California Court says English-only tests OK in schools


"Rita" <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:38:54 -0700, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
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Just one anecdotal data point, of course....but observing our grandson
wield
his way through this school leads me to think that the immersion route
is/can be very successful. I need to ask his parents how the
born-in-Japan
kids are doing relative to English. In two years we'll see the
granddaughter embark down the same road. The anticipation a number of
years
from now is having the grandson and granddaughter conversing in Japanese
with each other with neither of their parents understanding what is being
said. :-)

While not at all the same situation, one of my sons lives in Brazil
and his wife is Brazilian but speaks excellent English. They adopted
a child and he is now over two years old and he speaks both English
and Portuguese as he lives in a bi-lingual household.

My son had to learn Portuguese but Oliver should be able to
function as a native speaker of both languages. At least that is
what his parents are aiming at -- kids' books, etc. in both
languages. Learning now to say the alphabet in both.

Here's an interesting article on this subject...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/07/20/unraveling_how_children_become_bilingual_so_easily/
short url: http://tinyurl.com/m79tes


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