Bilingual Education and World Languages / Foreign Language (LOTE)

Foreign Language (LOTE)
“We are on the frontier of multilingual education, so it is not only one language, one second language that the child is learning with us," she said. "We are teaching second, third, fourth, and some children speak five languages.“
“With a global economy and with global marketplaces, folks understand, parents understand, that multiliteracy is almost as important as literacy itself — almost as important as any other baseline academic marker," he said. "That is what has changed."

LOTE teaching the 5 Cs

Here is a demonstration of the different aspects of teaching a second language

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LOTE teaching the 5 Cs