On October 5th, 2007, I attended the MCTE Fall Conference in Lansing. I found some of the things I learned there to be somewhat beneficial, but other things didn’t seem to apply to me. Overall I am glad that I went. I started out with strong doubts when the welcome speech began [...]
Entries from October 2007
MCTE
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments
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Preschool + Language = Advantage
October 21st, 2007 · 8 Comments
The quotes in this post are from the article, “Bilingual Preschool Offers Best of Both Worlds,” October 20th, 2007, by Dawn Neuses, found at http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=359227 on October 21st, 2007.
This article describes a preschool that teaches Spanish speaking students with an ESL component. It is an early start on second language acquisition, but starting early is [...]
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On Race and ESL
October 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments
The quotes in this post are from the article, “Parents say school misread son’s ethnicity” Wednesday, October 17th, 2007, by Esmeralda Bermudez, found at http://www.oregonlive.com/education/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1192591534232800.xml&coll=7 on October 21st, 2007.
This article showed me an interesting aspect of bilingual education that I have not yet thought about. The article is summarized well by the following [...]
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