Star-Ledger reporter Sarah Golin highlights how preschoolers are getting a "leg up" by learning academics and social skills in two languages. Bilingual Buds parents Laura Farmer and Bauhui Wang are interviewed...
The students at Bilingual Buds in Summit aren’t just celebrating one day of Chinese culture. Instead, they are learning Chinese in an “immersion” program, where most of the class is conducted in a foreign language.
Bilingual Buds, which also has a program in Spanish, is one of several immersion language preschools in the state, and experts say interest is growing in these programs, as the benefits of bilingualism become more fully understood and accepted.
Immersion, or dual-language, education is different than learning a language through an hour of weekly or even daily instruction. In these programs, all subjects, including math, language arts, pre-reading and reading skills, are taught in two languages, the target language and English. And for the most part, the target language dominates the instruction time.
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