Ah, that makes sense. The kids who immigrate over here in the higher grades have heartbreakingly high dropout rates. I saw it on my practicum in a public school.
I've heard the 95% thing too and totally believe it. Vocab vocab vocab. It just takes ridiculous amounts of time to learn, especially if your L1 isn't similar to the target language.
Three years??? That's just...pedagogically unsound. Is that for students of any age? Makes no sense.
The one thing I've heard about the US that sounds awesome to me is bilingual education. We're starting to copy it here in my province in a few places (it's all Mandarin-English classes). Have you got a lot of that going on in your state? Ever observed a class? It sounds super interesting but I bet they need ridiculously well-trained teachers to pull it off.
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Date: 2011-12-09 08:59 am (UTC)I've heard the 95% thing too and totally believe it. Vocab vocab vocab. It just takes ridiculous amounts of time to learn, especially if your L1 isn't similar to the target language.
Three years??? That's just...pedagogically unsound. Is that for students of any age? Makes no sense.
The one thing I've heard about the US that sounds awesome to me is bilingual education. We're starting to copy it here in my province in a few places (it's all Mandarin-English classes). Have you got a lot of that going on in your state? Ever observed a class? It sounds super interesting but I bet they need ridiculously well-trained teachers to pull it off.