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From https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/08/20/these-free-new-york-summer-schools-for-english-learners-are-in-demand/

These free New York summer schools for English learners are in demand
by Reema Amin
August 20, 2019

At home, fifth-grader Aileen Shao usually speaks Mandarin with her family. So when she heads to the hallways of P.S. 1 in Brooklyn for summer school, she helps her classmates connect to one another. 

...Shao is among the roughly 7,500 New York City children who attended free summer programs that are designed to help multilingual students — children who are learning English as a new language — build skills in core subjects, such as math, while developing their language skills. Depending on the program, there’s also lighter summer fare, such as field trips and cooking classes. 

Students can lose their grasp of a new language over the summer because they might only be speaking it in a limited capacity, if at all, educators say. There’s not a lot of research around summer learning loss among English language learners, but one 2012 study found that students from non-English speaking homes experienced a bigger loss of English vocabulary while school was out compared to students from homes where English is spoken. 

Read the full article at https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/08/20/these-free-new-york-summer-schools-for-english-learners-are-in-demand/