Projects: Bilingual education
This section illustrantes the growing interest in bilingual education and will explore the different approaches to bilingual education. Many videos also explore the benefits and disadvantages of growing or becoming bilingual.
Amazing Classrooms: Spanish Immersion
The Spanish Language Immersion School is a public school with dedicated educators and committed parents who are creating an extraordinary experience for kids from K to Grade 5. Students arrive speaking English as their dominant language. They leave fluent in Spanish, but also filled with knowledge about various cultures, practiced in diversity, and possessing real skills that give them an educational and career advantage.
Bilingualism
A few speakers talk about why it is important to them to be bilingual (english-spanish)
Part 1: Early Childhood Education in Bilingualism
This is PART 1 of a half show on Early Childhood Education in Bilingualism. Discover the door of opportunities that open for people who are bilingual. In this story you will meet a family who enrolled their two daughters in a spanish program at the ripe age of three and five. Following you will hear from Dr. Fernando Naidich, a bilingual and mulicultural educator at Montclair State University. Dr. Naiditch offers his expert opinion as to why it is vitally important to be bilingual in today’s diverse environment.
Part 2: Early Chilhood Education in Bilingualism
This is PART 2 of a half show on Early Childhood Education in Bilingualism. Discover the door of opportunities that open for people who are bilingual. In this story you will meet a family who enrolled their two daughters in a spanish program at the ripe age of three and five. Following you will hear from Dr. Fernando Naidich, a bilingual and mulicultural educator at Montclair State University. Dr. Naiditch offers his expert opinion as to why it is vitally important to be bilingual in today’s diverse environment.
Part 3: Early Childhood Education in Bilingualism
This is PART 3 of a half show on Early Childhood Education in Bilingualism. Discover the door of opportunities that open for people who are bilingual. In this story you will meet a family who enrolled their two daughters in a spanish program at the ripe age of three and five. Following you will hear from Dr. Fernando Naidich, a bilingual and mulicultural educator at Montclair State University. Dr. Naiditch offers his expert opinion as to why it is vitally important to be bilingual in today’s diverse environment.
Language and Learning
How many languages can a child learn at once? Is there a ‘window’ of opportunity, or can they learn multiple languages at any time? And what are the cognitive benefits of learning more than one language? We speak with research psychologists and a language teacher about how kids acquire second, third or fourth languages and how it helps.
Myths About Bilingual Children
Brenda K. Gorman, PH.D, discusses the myths of bilingualism in children with the CEO of Lingua Health and Grupo Lingua, John Consalvi, M.A. CCC-SLP.
Why Bilingual Education is Important in Elementary Schools (US)
Why it is important for elementary schools to teach more than one language
