Comments on: 2 thoughts http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: American Family » struggle session http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/comment-page-1/#comment-82030 American Family » struggle session Mon, 12 May 2008 17:03:07 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/#comment-82030 [...] I have been thinking a lot about this post.  [...] [...] I have been thinking a lot about this post.  [...]

]]> By: Kohana http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/comment-page-1/#comment-81230 Kohana Sun, 04 May 2008 09:38:09 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/#comment-81230 We went to an even put on by the Dutch community in Sydney, hosted at the children's Dutch language school (language classes, not language immersion education). We were told, through the grapevine, that unless children voluntarily speak Dutch at home, they are not accepted into the Dutch classes because they start speaking english and get everyone else off track. It blew my mind that the children who perhaps need to most support in their language aquisition or maintenance, are excluded from the program! It sounds like you have a lot of venues for language support, but it is hard to convince a child to speak a second language. No matter how much our son is spoken to in Dutch, he always answers in english. I don't know how to change that. We went to an even put on by the Dutch community in Sydney, hosted at the children’s Dutch language school (language classes, not language immersion education). We were told, through the grapevine, that unless children voluntarily speak Dutch at home, they are not accepted into the Dutch classes because they start speaking english and get everyone else off track. It blew my mind that the children who perhaps need to most support in their language aquisition or maintenance, are excluded from the program!

It sounds like you have a lot of venues for language support, but it is hard to convince a child to speak a second language. No matter how much our son is spoken to in Dutch, he always answers in english. I don’t know how to change that.

]]> By: wkn http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/comment-page-1/#comment-81163 wkn Sat, 03 May 2008 18:07:15 +0000 http://american-family.org/2008/05/02/1236/#comment-81163 I'm not sure if you read this or not, but it's about language immersion programs to begin next year in Chicago. http://www.examiner.com/a-1369342~Chicago_school_beefs_up_language_programs.html I’m not sure if you read this or not, but it’s about language immersion programs to begin next year in Chicago. http://www.examiner.com/a-1369342~Chicago_school_beefs_up_language_programs.html

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