Now that China is the world’s second largest economy, it’s no surprise that a booming language immersion program has seen a 300 percent growth in demand for Mandarin Chinese. Yesterday I spoke with ...

A lack of Mandarin Chinese in schools is hampering young people’s prospects and putting the economy at risk, it was suggested today. The British Council raised concerns that the number of schools in ...

At the Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., a sort of linguistic wrestling match takes place every afternoon pitting about a dozen students, ages 12 to 14, against a formidable foe: ...

Ya-Hsuan "Jamie" Wu flipped through the pages of the thin chapter books: Ameila Bedelia, Danny the Dinosaur and one of her personal favorites, Hello Kitty. Wu flipped through the pages, looking for ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

Denise Tatum spent nine weeks during the summer of 2008 at Middlebury College in Vermont speaking only in Mandarin Chinese. If anyone at the college heard a word of English from her, she would get a ...

This past academic year, 146 New York City kids 4 to 14 dutifully attended Rosalyn Chao's Mandarin class at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral Academy. Many of the students were first-generation Americans; ...

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Description: The proposed project is to develop a customized online teaching and learning platform for the Heritage Mandarin Chinese courses I teach at SFU. The students for these courses fall into ...