Chipanglish » English http://www.chipanglish.com Blogging semi-coherently in Chinese, Japanese, and English Sat, 01 May 2010 01:46:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 An Interesting Debate on English Education at NYTimes.com http://www.chipanglish.com/education/immigrants_and_english/ http://www.chipanglish.com/education/immigrants_and_english/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:36:04 +0000 Elenita http://www.chipanglish.com/?p=317 Just a quick heads up: it looks like the NY Times has begun hosting a debate on immigration, and is starting with how to teach young children English.

We’ve talked about English education a lot here, but mostly in the context of English as the lingua franca. Learning a country’s dominant language (and I certainly don’t just mean the US here) as an immigrant–or the child-citizen of immigrants–is very different with a very different set of issues, and I’m not sure where I stand on many of them.

Apparently, a feature article on “a Virginia school district that segregates students who are the children of immigrants, and who don’t speak English well, to make it easier to give them intensive support” will be published this weekend. Possibly, this will help clarify my own views; either way, I suspect I’ll post afterwards with my reactions. But, in the meantime, I found the related debate to be fascinating, and encourage people to check it out.

Update: Article now available. Started and restarted multiple drafts of my response–this may take awhile.

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