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Reply to " Yu Ying - Do/Can Non-Native Kids Actually SPEAK Chinese?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I work at an international school in another country, and all kids here are required to take a daily class in the "host language", taught by a local-hire native speaker, plus most specials are taught by native speakers of the local language and they use the language in this time. And then most of the American kids also take lessons/are on teams in the community in which the coaches/teammates speak only the native language, and English isn't widely spoken in this city, so there is additional daily "real life" exposure to the native language. Yet the ONLY American kids--even among those who are now in high school and have been here since elementary--who speak the native language fluently are the ones who have one parent who is a native speaker of that language. Our admin is currently troubled by this because last year we added the AP class for the local language, and all the American kids bombed it even with all of the extra AP lessons they were having to supplement all of their other exposure/lessons. So I doubt a school in America in which the kids only get the second language via some teachers during the school day are going to ever be fluent in that language.[/quote]
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