{"id":353,"date":"2013-10-14T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=353"},"modified":"2013-10-14T10:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:01","slug":"multilingual-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATES that have passed English-only laws aren&#8217;t typically the sort to shower money on bilingual education. Utah, which declared English its sole official language <a href=\"http:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Utah_English_as_Official_Language,_Initiative_A_(2000)\">in 2000<\/a>, seems to be an exception. The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/20\/us\/language-programs-flower-in-utahs-schools.html?_r=0\">reported<\/a> that the state is expanding its langauge-immersion programs for young students. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin are currently on the docket. German and Arabic might follow. According to Utah&#8217;s governor, this new initiative grows out of the Mormon mission tradition, during which missionaries are encouraged to learn local languages abroad. Utah is some 60% Mormon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>The teachers \u2014 most of them from other countries \u2014 teach regular subjects like mathematics and reading and social studies, only speaking exclusively in a foreign language. At first, they pantomime and use pictures and videos to get their point across, but they say the students can understand them within a few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Utahns are quickly catching on.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Parents, wary at first, have rushed to enter lotteries to place their children in the programs. Some school districts&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21576925?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Johnson http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21576925?fsrc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATES that have passed English-only laws aren&#8217;t typically the sort to shower money on bilingual education. Utah, which declared English its sole official language in 2000, seems to be an exception. The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;recently reported that the state is expanding its langauge-immersion programs for young students. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin are currently on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}