Petition for Language Immersion Program at UNES
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Petition for Language Immersion Program at UNES

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I am requesting that UNES offer a two-way language immersion program. Ideally, such a program would consist of a student population with about half native-English speakers and the other half natively-speaks the target language (e.g., Spanish). Class time would be split in half and taught in English and half in the target language. This way students encourage and teach each other, and eventually all become bilingual.


Proven benefits these programs include:
  • Improvement in linguistic and meta linguistic abilities
  • An increase of cognitive ability “such as divergent thinking, concept formation, verbal abilities,listening skills, and general reasoning
  • Improves one's understanding of his/her native language.
  • Opens the door to other cultures and helps a child understand and appreciate people from other countries
  • Increases job opportunities in many careers where knowing another language is a real asset
  • Superior SAT scores and standardized testing
  • Enhances Memory

Upper Nyack is a multi-cultural community. 25% of the population has a native language other than English. Offering a two-way language immersion program would greatly help educate our children and improve their understanding of other cultures. This program would offer many benefits to our children and to our community as a whole.

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