Hite Elementary is offering Chinese as its world language focus this year. Hite Elementary administrators hope Chinese classes will improve math performance. Last year the school implemented the ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...

Colloquy: Join a live, online discussion with David C. Geary, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia, about research suggesting that there are innate differences between ...

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HADLEY -- At the start of his sixth-grade year, Maxwell Balkema sat silent and confused for two hours a day as a teacher spoke Chinese to him and other classmates who did not know a word of the ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

Chinese language teacher Yuan Zhao, who teaches at the Mamaroneck High School, New York, demonstrates how teachers can encourage self-expression in their Chinese language classrooms. For guidance on ...

In this Chinese class, Fangzhou Zhang’s 8th graders from the Montclair Kimberley Academy, New Jersey, are learning the unit "Sports." In this specific lesson, they are talking about starting a ping ...

In a classroom, a large screen displays a conversation in Chinese: in it, two people are adding each other on WeChat. Encouraged by the teacher, Pakistani Muhammad Ajmal, a postdoctoral researcher in ...