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| Title | Article: County's Early Language Program Pays Off |
| Body | From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100091.html?nav=rss_education County's Early Language Program Pays Off Enrollment, Fluency Up in Middle School By Michael Birnbaum October 2, 2008 The first students to be exposed to elementary Spanish classes in the Loudoun school system are now in ninth grade, and foreign language participation rates in middle school show the effects of the program. Spanish, long the most popular foreign language, hasn't grown in dominance over other languages, but total enrollment in language classes at the middle school level has surged, said Suzette F. Wyhs, who oversees foreign language instruction for the school district. Two years ago, before any of the students with elementary school Spanish had reached eighth grade, 16 percent of Loudoun eighth-graders did not take a foreign language. The number has plummeted. Wyhs said the figures suggest that students who have been through the elementary program are less intimidated about pursuing foreign language studies -- and with good reason, she said, pointing to research that shows that learning one nonnative language makes it easier to learn another. Read the entire article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100091.html?nav=rss_education . |
| Source | Washington Post |
| Inputdate | 2008-10-05 02:12:41 |
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