January 29, 2024
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What languages might you hear on ISB’s campus these days? Here is a snapshot based on student data for Semester 2, 2023-24 (click to enlarge). Note: This graph shows the number of students for whom each language is listed as … Continue reading
February 8, 2023
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What languages might you hear on ISB’s campus these days? Here is a snapshot based on student data for Semester 2, 2022-23 (click to enlarge). Note: This graph shows the number of students for whom each language is listed as … Continue reading
March 14, 2022
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What languages might you hear on ISB’s campus these days? Here is a snapshot based on student data for Semester 2, 2021-22 (click image to enlarge). Note: This graph shows the number of students for whom each language is listed … Continue reading
February 15, 2018
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February 21 is International Mother Language Day. ISB High School students have made posters that are now displayed in the MS/HS cafeteria and HS hallways. Below is a small sampling of the posters. Please come to the HS to see more! About 40 languages are represented … Continue reading
May 15, 2017
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Perspectives on bilingualism / language maintenance
May 2, 2017
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In this Grade 3 classroom at ISB, children have access to books in their mother tongue. Thanks Caryn Macky
March 21, 2017
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It’s good to see teachers doing the quiet, small things that send powerful messages to kids. In this example from Grade 3, the teacher sponsors a child in a read-a-thon to read in both her languages. The learning here is … Continue reading
March 21, 2017
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What languages are people learning?
February 14, 2017
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Don’t just speak English, teachers told Thanks to Avery Udagawa for this article.
January 31, 2017
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Contrasting languages in Ms Macky’s Grade 3 Lots of opportunities for children to talk about how languages work to make meaning.