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Dual-language elementary students performed as well as AP high schoolers in Mandarin, study says
by Deepa Fernandes
June 30, 2015

A new Stanford University study reports some surprising results: fourth and fifth graders at a Palo Alto school performed on par with high school students in Mandarin.

…The Stanford Graduate School of Education researchers found the elementary and high school students had the same level of linguistic competency in Mandarin, with some fifth graders even outperforming the high schoolers in reading. The results of their study are published in the spring issue of Foreign Language Annals.

The Stanford researchers also found no difference in linguistic ability between native Mandarin speakers and non-Chinese students in dual-language immersion school by the time they reached 4th and 5th grade.

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The study is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/flan.12123/abstract