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[quote=Anonymous]You shouldn't have false expectations, but you should think of it as a trajectory. Your child probably has a better chance of gaining fluency in an L2 with more years of practice than fewer, no? If your child continues in some way through Middle School, HS, and College --c'mon. They'll get to a decent level if they put in the effort. Also, exposure to an L2 has a great effect on metacognition in children. Bilingual ed. has lots of issues, including the silly idea that in a few short years your child will emerge as a 'a balanced bilingual' (this concept is pretty much a fallacy; most of us will always have a dominant language, or a language preference/comfort depending on what we are trying to do in the moment).... but I would not worry about my child not getting somewhere with the language in programs like this.[/quote]
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