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Reply to "Foreign Language after school program at ES in MCPS?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I am 12:04 and I can tell you that when I was a kid I went to a dual language school where we were in immersion for several hours each day so I can certainly appreciate the benefits of that approach. However, I think it's a real stretch to consider a class that occurs once a week for an hour to be an "immersion environment" regardless of how much English is or is not used in it, and I also think it's not obvious that treating it as if it is one is necessarily the most developmentally appropriate approach. I can't speak to the experience of others, but I can tell you that my kid was happy to learn languages when we traveled or in other classes we took, but was absolutely miserable in FLES. The teacher may well have been a native speaker, but it is unclear if she had any pedagogical training at all-- I think she actually used a dunce cap in class.[/quote]
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