Multilingual kids from all socio-economic and racial backgrounds thriving in a Japanese-English dual-language program. In Bushwick! In a public school! For free!
“Révolution Bilingue”, le podcast mensuel produit par French Morning et présenté par Fabrice Jaumont, s’intéresse ce mois-ci au cerveau. Depuis une dizaine d’années, les recherches sur les effets du bilinguisme sur notre lobe frontal ont beaucoup progressé.
Fabrice Jaumont reçoit Ana Ines Ansaldo, qui non seulement parle cinq langues, mais est aussi et surtout une des chercheuses les plus réputées sur cette question. Dans son laboratoire de l’Université de Montréal elle a notamment montré que les bilingues résistent mieux au vieillissement que les monolingues.
Les controverses scientifiques sur les effets réels du bilinguisme sur le cerveau sont encore nombreuses, mais, grâce aux travaux de chercheurs comme le professeur Ansaldo, un consensus se dégage pour considérer que le bilinguisme donne des avantages cognitifs qui vont bien au-delà de la seule maîtrise de deux ou plusieurs langues.
Feeling prouder! Feeling proud! La revolución bilingüe : el futuro de la educación está en dos idiomas. Release date: December 1st, 2018 #revoluciónbilingüe Special thanks to Renata Somar Aragón and Diana Limongi Gabriele Raymond Verdaguer and TBR Books.
CALEC President Fabrice Jaumont delivered the keynote speech during the STARTALK Fall Conference in Houston, Texas which was held on October 19 and 20, 2018, at the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria Hotel. The STARTALK Fall 2018 Conference focused on sharing practices, innovative strategies, effective learning tools and resources, and insights uncovered by reflection practices that were experienced in various STARTALK programs.
STARTALK is a federal grant program
funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National
Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK grants
fund summer world language learning programs as well as professional
development programs for world language teachers. STARTALK grants
support programs for students and teachers of eleven critical need
languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese,
Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.
Through these programs, the STARTALK program seeks to achieve three goals:
– Increase the number of students enrolled in the study of critical languages
– Increase the number of highly effective critical-language teachers in the U.S.
– Increase the number of highly effective materials and curricula available to teachers and students of critical-need languages
At the end of Fabrice Jaumont’s presentation featuring CALEC’s work via The Bilingual Revolution, all participants were offered access to TBR Books where they could download our ebooks and resources for free.
We were thrilled to give two presentations during Transforming Communities through Multilingualism, a three-day seminar hosted by the New York City Department of Education on November 5 and 7, 2018. CALEC President Fabrice Jaumont was able to present our flagship program, The Bilingal Revolution, and share his experiences about the importance of parents and grassroots efforts for New York’s multilingual learners. Other presenters included Dr. José Medina. Chancellor Richard Carranza, Dr. Linda Chen, Kathleen Leos, Dr. Margarita Calderón, and many more.
We are even more convinced that NYC will gain tremendously from offering dual language programs in as many languages as possible. We believe bilingual education is for all. The time to do this is now! Being bilingual is the new norm and it must start with our youngest citizens.
Fabrice Jaumont interviewed Dr Ana Ines Ansaldo today during New York’s Bilingual Fair organized by FrenchMorning. She is a professor at the University of Montreal and a researcher working on neuroplasticity in brain trajectory and on the different factors that can impact a brain throughout life including bilingualism. She wowed us all with her insight on the bilingual brain. Thank you French Morning for making this talk available online.
During New York’s Bilingual Fair with Fabrice Jaumont and Kathleen Stein-Smith and our soon-to-be released book, The Gift of Languages: Paradigm Shift In Foreign Language Education. The book explores the many advantages of multilingual education and sets the stage for a new paradigm in our approach to teaching and learning languages. Also, the book touches on the issue of foreign language deficit in the United States and the changes that need to occur in our schools to better serve our children and our linguistic communities. The book also explores the growth of dual-language education in recent years and explores the connection between both multilingual programming and solving the United States’ foreign language problem. You can pre-order it on http://www.tbr-books.com
