SiS Newsletter - January 2010 - Spanish instruction continues
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Spanish instruction continues growing.
According to a recent survey from the Center for Applied Linguistics entitled “Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools”, Spanish language instruction in American schools has grown well above other languages. This study does not cover college language programs. Increasingly, children learn Spanish in their schools and are fluent in this language, which puts this language in a privileged position compared to others.
This is good news for Spain and Latin America that have seen how the teaching of Spanish has risen from 79% to 88% in the last 10 years in primary school and has maintained an impressive 93% in colleges.
Other languages that also have a presence in American schools are French, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese and Arabic.
Amigos del español
Sofia Vergara
Who was Griselda Blanco? For many years, this woman was only the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Cocaine Godmother’ two of the nicknames that the few people who knew her were using to identify her.
Sofía Coppola
A teenager and a rock star fall in love and get married in Director Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama, ‘Priscilla’. Literature has even found its way into her on-screen work.
Xolo Maridueña
The new DC action movie, 'Blue Beetle', is the first to feature a Latino superhero as the protagonist. The film tells the story of Jaime Reyes, a recent university graduate, who returns home to Ciudad Palmera when he comes into contact with a Beetle
