Quels seront les thèmes abordés lors de la table ronde sur le cerveau bilingue? Trois thèmes principaux sur le cerveau bilingue seront développés. Tout d’abord, , au cours duquel nous nous intéresserons au développement du cerveau et ce que cela implique pour l’âge d’acquisition d’une langue ou de plusieurs langues. Nous
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Le bilinguisme à la loupe
When you are French living in New York, when you raise your children at the Lycée Français de New York, you make the choice of bilingualism, sometimes without fully understanding what it might mean for them. At the Lycée Français de New York, our children adopt a bilingualism all their
Read More!Our Call to Plurilingualism
It seems like days ago, but in fact it has been less than 12 hours since I left New York for Paris, where Vannina Boussouf and I are spending the week recruiting new faculty for the Lycée Français. I say it seems like days because while my plane departed at
Read More!Opera in Chinese and Western Cultural History
The ballet The Red Detachment of Women Language occupies a province in the realm of culture; therefore, language instruction can be successfully facilitated through cultural vehicles. One avenue for language learning is traced by the arts, and opera in particular. As a historian and head of the arts department, I
Read More!The challenge of learning chinese
A 7th-grade Mandarin class on December 14th 2012. I was excited to read Sean’s post “I do I understand”. I was impressed by Sean’s depth of knowledge of Chinese language and Chinese culture. I think it is thoughtful and inspiring. Learning Chinese does pose a particular challenge for our students. “In
Read More!Le bilinguisme : un prisme à multiples facettes
Alors que le Lycée Français co-organise une conférence sur le bilinguisme le 3 novembre prochain, l’orthophoniste française Emilie Colas apporte sa contribution au débat sur ce que l’on entend par bilinguisme. Article initialement posté sur NewYorkInFrench
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