Our online forum provided useful informa- tion regarding the curriculum for elementary school Japanese language education following Tim's request to assist his nine year old son who is attending a French school. John D. suggested Kumon Challenge and Christie provided the link for it. Steve wrote ...
Seldom do EFL learners in Hong Kong have difficulty distinguishing between “in front of” and “behind”, which are considered elementary words, but they appear to possess difficulty distinguishing between converses that are verbs (Chan 2010). Compare the following set of sentences: (2a) *I ...
“All over Utah, elementary-school students are joking and studying and singing and reading and fluently speaking in languages not their own: French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and, soon, Portuguese. They are part of one of the most ambitious total- immersion language-education programs ever attemp...
Let me begin this important post with a little story… Not long ago I bumped into another American father in town, cradling his newborn daughter. His other two children, of elementary school age, were playing nearby. As we talked about our children, and naturally touched on our efforts to...
different construction activities, where he continued to learn Spanish, her Quechua-dominant mother ran household activities for her husband and six children, and the family continued tending to theirchacrasback in their hometown. Altogether, parents had completed some years of elementary schooling. Yout...
In both the US and abroad, learning science begins in the elementary grades, which is a critical timeframe for students as they are introduced to foundational and crosscutting concepts necessary for later success in science achievement (National Research Council [NRC], 2012). Disparities in ...
In ASL/English bilingual schools, teachers are expected to be proficient in ASL and English and utilize bilingual methods with deaf children (Humphries 2013), which could arguably Languages 2023, 8, 37 7 of 22 be considered part of the translanguaging pedagogy. These common bilingual methods are...