Language instruction at CMI in the upper elementary grades

[Anonymous]

Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

I can't imagine their learning anything of substance. The whole model is ridiculous and designed to look good on a brochure, not provide any results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

I can't imagine their learning anything of substance. The whole model is ridiculous and designed to look good on a brochure, not provide any results.

Their?

[Anonymous]

The question was directed to CMI parents, not CMI haters.

[Anonymous]

OP is a troll. We all now the language situation qualifies as 'exposure' at CMI. Please stop turning this into bed drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

I can't imagine their learning anything of substance. The whole model is ridiculous and designed to look good on a brochure, not provide any results.

Ridiculous? Is it any different than any of the other non-immersion DCPS schools? Shepherd and Eaton have languages a few days per week. Why are you so indignant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

I can't imagine their learning anything of substance. The whole model is ridiculous and designed to look good on a brochure, not provide any results.

Ha! That's what you know, we didn't even have a "brochure" until this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

I can't imagine their learning anything of substance. The whole model is ridiculous and designed to look good on a brochure, not provide any results.

Ridiculous? Is it any different than any of the other non-immersion DCPS schools? Shepherd and Eaton have languages a few days per week. Why are you so indignant?

+1. We only have Spanish 2-3 times a week and ITS. Certainly they're not learning enough for fluency, but it gives an introduction to language that the student may foster in later years. They learn about Spanish geography, culture, literature, etc. I don't understand the hate on a school of offering a special. Nobody is claiming ability for fluency, nor do some parents even want that.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a bilingual education troll. Anything less than full immersion by native language professors is an abomination, and you must hate your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

To actually answer your question, my child has chinese 2x weekly and Spanish 2x weekly. She also is in a chinese Immersion club after school @ CMI. She has taken to Chinese and has progressed much better than Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can any CMI parents tell me more about the foreign language instruction in the upper elementary grades? Do students continue to take both Spanish and Chinese? How much instructional time is provided, and do you feel your DCs are developing much ability to speak the language? TIA.

To actually answer your question, my child has chinese 2x weekly and Spanish 2x weekly. She also is in a chinese Immersion club after school @ CMI. She has taken to Chinese and has progressed much better than Spanish.

Thanks PP for that helpful in. Not OP but very interested in the Chinese Immersion Club. Who runs it (teacher, outside contractor)? We are at a DCPS and would like to institute a similar program.

[Anonymous]

The Chinese teacher at CMI teaches the afterschool club.

[Anonymous]

Do the students master the tones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the students master the tones?

The school is 3 years old and language instruction is part time. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

CMI has a brochure? Lame.